The poor state of public health services is negatively impacting businesses across the UK, but occupational health can help…
Are you losing staff time due to sicknesses? Tired of waiting for GP appointments and NHS treatments for staff? It’s no secret that the healthcare services in the UK are in a poor state due to long waitlists, higher sickness rates, increased poor mental health, lack of resources and funding etc. It’s clear that there’s a lot of factors at play.
This is having a huge negative impact on businesses across the UK, as 59% say that they are losing staff time due to the state of public services mentioned above. There’s an easy solution to this adversity- invest in occupational health.
How can UKIM Occupational Health & Wellbeing help?
With expert clinicians across the UK ranging from counsellors, psychologists to physicians and technicians, we’re able to support businesses with various healthcare needs. This means that there’s less of a reliance on public healthcare services, so long waits for appointments and treatments can be bypassed.
This allows employees to get the help they need quickly so that they can feel better in themselves and return to work safely. At UKIM Occupational Health & Wellbeing we don’t just stop at treatments, but we also advise on return to work plans so that employees effectively return to work without worsening conditions and taking leave again. With the help of our preventative care too, via health surveillance and wellbeing strategies, we reduce sickness absences in the first instance. This also means that employees are less likely to drop out of workforces due to their poor health, and it helps tackle any recruitment or retention problems.
Our services are tailored to suit business and employee needs so that workforces and organisations stay strong and healthy. After all, a healthy business needs healthy employees.
- Pre-Placement Assessments
- Case Management
- Employee Wellbeing
- Physiotherapy
- Health Surveillance
- Psychology & Counselling
- Neurodiversity Support
- Absence & Presenteeism Management
What are the benefits of investing in occupational health services?
For businesses, there are many benefits of occupational health. Currently, there are high sickness rates across the UK, and with poor public health services, these rates aren’t going down. In turn, businesses are losing valuable staff time and it’s costing a lot.
By investing in occupational health services, businesses can tackle these issues by creating a healthy workforce. Making sure that staff are healthy through support such as health surveillance, counselling and psychology, and employee wellbeing, means that businesses will have full and productive teams to carry out work. There’ll be less absences, less presenteeism, increased productivity and focus; overall, a successful workforce that boosts finances.
- Quick and safe returns to work
- Reduced absences
- Reduction in presenteeism
- Increased focus and productivity
- Greater returns on investment
- Reduced absence costs
- More effective operations
- Higher employee retention
How is the poor state of public healthcare services impacting businesses?
Delays in appointments and treatments ultimately mean that employees are poorly for longer than they would be or should be. The lack of appointments and treatments can actually worsen people’s conditions as they’re not getting the help as soon as they need it to prevent it from reaching a serious or worse state.
When it comes to mental health, which makes up 51% of sicknesses in the UK, the treatment and support isn’t easily reachable in preventative stages, meaning that there’s often more people off work due to mental health issues that have worsened as they’re waiting for help or support. As a result of high sickness rates and a current lack of healthcare, people are actually dropping out of workforces because they can't carry on. For businesses, this is creating recruitment and retention problems, and it urgently needs addressing.
At work this causes a lack of productivity, higher absence and presenteeism rates, as well as huge financial costs that can be hard to recover from.
From preventative solutions and early identification support to diverse treatment options and relapse prevention, our end-to-end services ensure that your employees stay well and develop future resilience.
