| Occupational Health Line Pilot Extended |
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The Government's occupational health advice line which is being piloted within England, Scotland and Wales has now been extended to March 2013.
The advice line will provide small business owners, managers and employees with early and easy access to high quality, professional advice. It will be tailored to business needs, as well as being able to respond to individual employee health issues. Why the Advice line? Employee sickness absence has a detrimental effect on business profitability so it's crucial to minimise sickness absence and properly support employees who are at work with ill health. With some small businesses losing on average 12 days a year to physical or mental ill health, the potential impact on you and your business is considerable. Contacting the Advice line will help you to provide the immediate help and support needed by an employee experiencing ill health. You will understand how to manage future cases of employee ill health and sickness absence, and how to introduce healthier working practices that will positively impact on all your staff. What's more, investing in the health of your staff makes sound commercial sense in terms of business performance, productivity and staff morale, and it helps create a healthy working culture. England: www.health4work.nhs.uk/ The service is available to: • Owners and managers of businesses with 0-249 employees in England and Wales. In Scotland, the service is available to all businesses. |