Trusted by NHS Trusts & household names…
Board Assurance for Workplace Health & Wellbeing
With over 20 years of experience in workplace wellbeing, we understand both your business and your people
Our services are perfect for organisations and leaders who:
- Don’t know where to start and need a clear, evidence-based roadmap.
- Need independent assurance that their workplace health & wellbeing approach is effective.
- Are investing in wellbeing but aren’t sure what’s making a difference.
- Want practical, evidence-based recommendations rather than another wellbeing initiative.
If this sounds like you, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.
We’ll take wellbeing from a list of activities/programmes and transform it into a business KPI, ensuring that your wellbeing provision is a good fit, provides value, helps you manage cost and improve culture.
Workplace Wellbeing Should Be a Strategic Priority
Despite growing awareness and investment in workplace wellbeing, most organisations still struggle to turn good intentions into measurable impact. Many invest in initiatives without a clear understanding of workforce health, while others create strategies that never get fully implemented. The result is wasted spend, rising absence, and employees who struggle in silence.
Our Services
Workforce Health Profile
Understand where you are today.
An independent assessment of your organisation’s workforce health & wellbeing practices.
Includes:
- Workforce health audit
- Leadership interviews
- Data review
- Board assurance report
- Prioritised recommendations
Workforce Health Planning
Build a clear plan for improvement.
Turn the findings from the assurance review into a practical, evidence-based strategy that aligns with your organisation’s objectives.
Includes:
- Workforce health strategy
- Strategic priorities
- Delivery roadmap
- Success measures
- Governance framework
- Board-ready documentation
Partnership
Deliver sustainable change.
Ongoing strategic support to help leaders implement, monitor and continually improve workforce health.
Includes:
- Executive advisory support
- Progress reviews
- Workforce health dashboard
- Programme assurance
- Continuous improvement
Our Impact Across 20 Years
Take the First Step
Ready to take wellbeing off your plate and into expert hands? Let’s make it happen. Schedule a free consultation to discuss your needs and discover how we can help you build a healthier, happier workforce.
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Why Choose Us
- We have a track record spanning 20+ years
- We helped The Walton Centre NHS Trust become the first in the country to have both Investors in People Gold and the Gold Health & Wellbeing award.
- We have won awards for our clients (Employee Benefits, Personnel Today)
- We have audited and transformed over 25 NHS Trusts Occupational health services, reducing costs & improving services.
- Our team is regularly invited to speak at conferences – CIPD Festival of work, Northern SPF & NHS People Pledge.
- We have experience working in most sectors
- We provide business-driven, and person-centred solutions
- We work with you, not for you
- We will challenge you
Wellbeing Success
- Provided Business Readiness Check to NHS Trusts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Supported HR professionals in association with the HPMA during lockdown by running a free 30:30 activity challenge. 315,319 minutes of activity achieved by 190 people.
- Developed and delivered bespoke wellbeing programmes to clients, including the Heathrow Business Centre Westinghouse, Bishop Rawstorne Academy, MBDA, and National Grid. Each targeting a specific aspect of wellbeing.
- Provided on-site health screening to clients throughout the UK.
- Delivered Mental Health First Aid courses to public and private sector clients.
- Designed and delivered bespoke wellbeing challenges and group and personal coaching to over 100 clients, including Unilever, Compass Group, and Dudley Building Society and provided challenges for associations such as Lancashire Mind. – National Grid lost over 315 stone on our £4pound challenge.
Consultancy Achievements
- We have audited and written strategies for various clients, including 26 NHS Trusts, ESB Ireland, 12 Councils, and private sector clients, including SAAP, Sheffield and Liverpool Universities EON.
- Our work with the Foods standards agency reduced absenteeism from 17.7 days to 8.4 days.
- Our work with Heart of England NHS Trust enabled us to develop an integrated wellbeing strategy that helped the Trust to reduce absence and engage senior leaders in Energy and Vitality. Sickness overall in the Trust has come down by 2%. Long-term absence was reduced by 37% in 12 months. Of 100 long-term cases, 80 are ‘closed’ with the majority back at work.
- We have enabled our clients to enter and win numerous prestigious awards, such as Personnel Today and Employee Benefits. City of York schools won three awards.
- Consultancy support to Gloucester County Council saved £86,953, or 23% of the original budget.
- Our work with Kings College Hospital enabled us to reduce costs on OH by £500,000, redevelop a more visible and efficient service and introduce new concepts such as a vocational rehabilitation service and overall wellbeing strategy.
- We successfully merged the trusts OH service with the South London and Maudsley.
- We provide audits and consultancy to Crossrail to manage the health of construction workers.
- We built NHS Buckinghamshire’s wellbeing strategy and conducted numerous focus groups and training to help manage staff through difficult organisational change.
- We wrote the wellbeing strategy for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and trained teams of champions to work in the promotion of the strategy and management of mental health support.
- With the board’s approval, we restructured ELHT NHS Trust and launched its wellbeing strategy.
Product Design History
- Built wellbeing websites for companies including Marks and Spencer, Health Assured and Westinghouse.
- Built a library of videos, fact sheets and programmes. Had over 108,000 views of our videos.
- Built the UK’s first Health Risk Assessment in 2003 and developed numerous tools for PPC Worldwide, Validium, Team Prevent, Wellbeing People and Warwick international computing.
- Developed the award-winning plan ‘a’ health corporate website in 2010 for Marks and Spencer’s attracting over 15000 users in the first 8 months.
- Developed Fitness/lifestyle assessment software that is used by over 1500 Occupational Health Departments and leading fitness centres.
- Developed an online Health club for Bowflex, the worlds leading supplier of fitness equipment.
- Developed a Sleep Assessment product with Loughborough University for workplace risk and performance enhancement.
- Developed an e-learning management training programme on attendance and stress.