Heart of England NHS Trust

In February 2008, following an external audit of our Occupational Health provision by Wellbeing4business Ltd, the Trust built a clearly defined Wellbeing strategy that aimed to provide an integrated and cost effective service to all employees and meet the business needs of managers and the Trust. Sickness overall in the Trust has come down by 2%. Absence rates are falling month on month this year (allowing for seasonal variations) e.g. Sept 08 was 4.5% compared to Sept 07 of 5.9% Long term absence has reduced by 37% in 12 months. Of 100 long term cases we have been case managing, 80 are ‘closed’ with the majority back at work. Short term sickness by 14%. Savings this year are estimated at 2 days per person (16k more days of work) and a reduction of £1.9m on average pay costs of staff who are off sick. Total savings, taking into account reduction in cover requirements and productivity gains from the decrease, are estimated to be £3.8m.
Reputation of HR and OH improved as absence has big impact on quality of patient care and costs. OH efficiency has resulted in staffing cost savings of 10%. Executive team and senior management team energy and resilience has improved

Gloucestershire County Council

Wellbeing4business Ltd began work with GCC began with an OH and Wellbeing Audit presented in January 2009. The project saved a total of £86,953 or 23% of original budget. Further savings were also made by reducing demand for counseling and reduced Dr days. The council also began to charge for services better to external clients with the development of a pricing model. The project saved money and introduced a vast amount of transformation in little over 12 weeks work. All work was delivered to schedule.

Foods Standards Agency

The FSA achieved the following results from our work on wellbeing and work life balance. Reduced absenteeism (self reported) –dropped from 17.7 days in 2001-2 to 8.4 days. Improved morale – the percentage of people with morale levels low enough to be potential leavers reduced from 19% in 2001-2, to 11% in 2002-3. This is especially significant given it occurred during a year of change.