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Sickness Absence Management

sickness absenceEverwell Occupational Health can help you reduce the disruption, loss of productivity and general management time wasted dealing with sickness absence issues.  We can help to facilitate the much faster return-to-work of your employees after a spell of sickness absence than otherwise would be the case if things were left to run their own course.  The early intervention of one of our highly experience Occupational Health professionals, be it an Occupational Health Advisor or an Occupational Health Physician, can produce rapid results. 

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Profit from Healthy Employees

sickness costAbsence from work cost the UK economy £13.2 billion as the average employee took almost seven (6.7) days off sick (source CBI, 2008 survey).  The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (source CIPD’s 2009 Absence Management survey) estimate that sickness absence costs £666 per employee per year and averaged 6.4 days per employee; giving an average cost of just over £100/day

At just £100/day this estimate probably under estimates all the extra unquantifiable costs such as Management time, loss of productivity, increased overtime or contractor levels, etc…. 

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Equality Act (or DDA) Medical Assessments

return to work assessmentThere are some prescribed health conditions that are automatically covered by the new Equality Act or the old Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) but in most cases only a tribunal can decide whether the Act actually applies to an employee. However an Occupational Health professional and, in particular, an Occupational Health Physician's opinion will be taken into due consideration in such an environment.

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