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Loughborough University team to tackle health of local businesses
Posted on 18/03/2008
P. Klein
A employee-focused corporate lifestyle service at Loughborough University is ready to help achieve targets set out in a radical national report unveiled this week by National Director for Health and Work Professor Dame Carol Black.
Dame Carol Black is the immediate Past-President of the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded the DBE for her services to medicine in 2005.
Working for a Healthier Tomorrow - the country’s first ever review into the health of the working age population - calls for urgent and comprehensive reform and a new approach to health and work in Britain, focused on preventative action rather than cure.
It reports that ill health costs the country £100 billion a year through an estimated 175m sick days and urges employers to offer more support to staff including healthy lifestyle promotion and access to occupational health teams.
Loughborough University’s Lifestyle Service is already working with local businesses to provide employee health assessments, healthy living workshops and tailored individual advice, and University Lifestyle Service Advisor Beth Hanson expects demand for the services to increase in light of this week’s report.
“At Loughborough we’ve recognised for some time now the importance of helping employers encourage their workforce to become more healthy,” she said. “Educating staff about health risks and helping them to manage their own health better has multiple benefits for the individuals involved as well as their employers.
“Not only can programmes like ours reduce absenteeism and improve the ability to return to work after illness, but they can also help increase productivity, improve morale and health, aid staff retention and reduce workplace injuries. We’re delighted Dame Carol’s report has put employee well-being under the national spotlight and we hope to be able to help more businesses in the region as a result.”
The Loughborough Lifestyle Service has a wide range of programmes available to employers including on-site assessments, staff workshops, cholesterol and blood pressure tests, healthy building audits and wider lifestyle advice.
For details of the programmes log onto http://www.loughboroughsport.com/lifestyle or contact Beth on 01509 226757 or lifestyle@lboro.ac.uk