Health service champions staff wellness
The UK’s National Health Service is joining the movement for corporate wellness.
Chief executive Simon Stevens has laid out plans in a major effort to “improve and support the health and wellbeing of 1.3 million health service staff.”
The plans were devised to address sickness absence across the NHS, the main causes of which are mental health and musculoskeletal problems. Other issues to be tackled include the diet, physical activity and staff stress levels.
The aim is “to ensure the NHS as an employer sets a national example in the support it offers its own staff to stay healthy.” Speaking at the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester, UK, Stevens detailed how the AED 28m initiative will help NHS organizations support their staff.
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