Plans for Occupational Health and Wellbeing Centre in Gilford Take a Step Closer to Becoming Reality

Plans for Occupational Health and wellbeing centre in Gilford take a step closer to becoming reality

Plans to turn Bannvale Social Education Centre (SEC) into an Occupational Health and Wellbeing Centre for Trust staff, are now a step closer to becoming reality, with the Southern HSC Trust having formally applied for listed building consent to carry out the works.

It’s time to rethink how we use occupational health

The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) has released a major report on sickness presenteeism: the act of working while unwell. It’s more common than sickness absence, more costly, and far less visible. Yet in most organisations, it goes unmeasured and unmanaged. In the latest annual survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, involving over 1,000 HR professionals, 76% had observed presenteeism among their office-…