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New Screening Prices
Reviewing your HR budget to make savings but still want to offer quality benefits? Did you know that we have just released our latest Employee Health Screening Prices starting from just £19.95 per employee.
We are very confident that our fees are not only competitively priced, but we also believe that we offer a better health screening programme than our competitors (including the large brand names!). Our employee health screening includes a detailed confidential Employee Health Report for each person and afterwards we provide you (the employer) with a unique Company Overview Report allowing you to take a proactive approach to employee health. Additionally we can also help you to promote this internally and provide bespoke marketing material to increase uptake from your team. Please contact us to reduce your costs whilst simultaneously receiving an excellent service!
Please contact us via email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or phone (0844 HEALTHY) to receive a copy of our latest pricing structure and details of how we can work in partnership with you to provide a very successful employee health screening programme.
Swine flu business advice
With an ever growing number of swine flu cases in the UK, the Department of Health has produced a very useful document providing advice for business in dealing with this situation in the workplace. It is anticipated that the first wave of swine flu will happen between August and November with around 30 per cent of the public predicted to be infected. During the peak weeks employee absence rates for illness (themselves or looking after ill children) may reach 12% of the workforce – this is in addition to normal holiday absence.
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Cancer gender gap
Recent research indicates that as men are more reluctant to visit their GP and generally maintain a less healthy lifestyle, there is a growing gender gap with developing various forms of cancer.
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£5bn smoking bill!!
Smoking now costs the NHS five times more than lack of physical activity issues and twice the cost of obesity related issues.
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NHS spend £1m/hour on diabetes
According to Diabetes UK, the NHS spend £1million an HOUR (10% of its annual budget) treating diabetes and its complications.
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Healthy Performance can provide a diabetes and/or cholesterol day for your organisation to raise awareness of this issue. This includes diabetes/cholesterol checks for all staff along with advice and support for anyone concerned about their results and wanting to find out more about how to improve their lifestyles.
Win FREE Massage Chair Hire
As part of our new website launch, you have the opportunity to win one week's FREE Massage Chair Hire for your organisation.
To enter your organisation, all you need to do is request a free Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Quote from us and you will be entered into the draw. The EAP section is within 'Our Services' and you must request a quotation before Friday 24th April 2009.
All organisations doing so will be entered in the draw and the winner will be announced in our May Newsletter.
New Website
We are delighted to launch the new Healthy Performance website, which will provide you with more information about health and wellbeing at work and the services we provide.
Our new site includes a Free EAP quotation section, updated statistics and formula for our unique Sickness Calculator and the opportunity to subscribe to our very popular Health & Wellbeing Newsletter.
If you are interested in receiving our Monthly Health & Wellbeing Newsletter, please subscribe by entering your email address into the relevant box in the bottom left hand corner of our home page. Alternatively, email us from our Contact Page.
If you have any comments about the new site please do not hesitate to contact us.
HMRC Confirm Tax Exemption
HM Revenue & Customs has confirmed that employer provided annual health screening and medical checks will be exempt from tax from 6 April 2009, bringing to an end months of uncertainty.To find out more about our Health Screening Programmes including a FREE Company Health Report and recommendations please contact us.
Updated Sickness Statistics
The latest sickness absence figures have been released highlighting yet again the clear difference between private and public sector organisations.
In the private sector, the average number of sickness days (per employee, per year) was 7.2, whereas the public sector statistics revealed an annual average of 9.8 days per employee. Recent research has also highlighted that over half of UK companies do not even measure sickness absence levels despite this being a key reason for reducing business performance.