Personnel Today
  • OHW+
  • Join
  • Resources
    • Clinical governance
    • Disability
    • Ergonomics
    • Health surveillance
    • OH employment law
    • OH service delivery
    • Research
    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management
    • Wellbeing and health promotion
  • Conditions
    • Mental health
    • Musculoskeletal disorders
    • Blood pressure
    • Cancer
    • Cardiac
    • Dementia
    • Diabetes
    • Respiratory
    • Stroke
  • CPD
  • Webinars
  • OHW Awards
  • Jobs
  • Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • OHW+
  • Join
  • Resources
    • Clinical governance
    • Disability
    • Ergonomics
    • Health surveillance
    • OH employment law
    • OH service delivery
    • Research
    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management
    • Wellbeing and health promotion
  • Conditions
    • Mental health
    • Musculoskeletal disorders
    • Blood pressure
    • Cancer
    • Cardiac
    • Dementia
    • Diabetes
    • Respiratory
    • Stroke
  • CPD
  • Webinars
  • OHW Awards
  • Jobs
  • Personnel Today

Latest NewsOccupational HealthWellbeing

NHS Plus wins first national occupational health contract

by Nic Paton 17 Oct 2008
by Nic Paton 17 Oct 2008

NHS Plus has won its first national occupational health contract, to provide OH services to the 3,200 employees of NHS phone, digital and online helpline NHS Direct.

The deal, which will be led by Imperial College’s Health at Work NHS Plus unit, will see 31 NHS Plus members working together to meet the OH needs of the helpline, which operates from 37 sites within nine English regions and handles more than 28.5 million calls from the public each year.

NHS Plus chief executive Kit Harling described the contract as a “major milestone” in the development of NHS Plus. He told Occupational Health he hoped it would be the first of many such national contracts.

There were about 400-500 individual employers working under the umbrella of the NHS, which all made their own OH arrangements, meaning there was clear potential for the expansion of this kind of activity, as well as continuing to reach out to provide services to businesses outside the NHS.

“We are already talking to other national structures within the NHS to see if we can help them, although things are at a very early stage at the moment,” he said.

“NHS Plus will be providing the full range of services, including strategic advice to address the health needs of its workforce and activities such as pre-employment assessment, management referrals, counselling and specific interventions to help people,” Harling added.

The key to the contract was to ensure that staff were treated to a consistent, national standard – something that NHS Plus, given its physical network, was well placed to provide, he argued.

Andrew Kelly, national head of HR policy for NHS Direct, said: “Taking care of our people is mission critical – we simply can’t provide the highest level of patient care without them.

“Awarding the contract to NHS Plus ensures they will receive the highest quality occupational health services from a name we can trust,” he added.




Nic Paton
Nic Paton

Nic Paton is consulting editor of OHW+. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for OHW+ and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.

previous post
Parental leave to cover for carer: weekly dilemma
next post
Government to launch strategy on mental health at work in 2009

You may also like

Will the Scale-up visa increase the UK’s flow...

18 Aug 2022

Risk of ‘brain fog’ still high two years...

18 Aug 2022

Fall in number of students accepted on degree...

18 Aug 2022

Travel disruption: employers’ questions answered

18 Aug 2022

Royal Mail staff vote for more strike action

17 Aug 2022

Workers worse off as inflation hits double figures

17 Aug 2022

Harrods threatens to use agency staff if strike...

17 Aug 2022

Personnel Today Awards 2022 shortlist: Performance Management Award

17 Aug 2022

Police officers who are violent towards women should...

17 Aug 2022

A third consider job move due to cost...

17 Aug 2022

  • 6 reasons why work-based learning is better than traditional training PROMOTED | A recent Fortune/Deloitte survey found that 71% of CEOs are anticipating that this year’s biggest business disrupter...Read more
  • Strengthening Scotland’s public services through virtual recruiting PROMOTED | This website is Scotland's go-to place for job seekers looking to apply for roles in public services...Read more
  • What’s next for L&D? Enter Alchemist… PROMOTED | It’s time to turn off the tedious and get ready for interactive and immersive learning experiences...Read more
  • Simple mistakes are blighting the onboarding experience PROMOTED | The onboarding of new hires is a company’s best chance...Read more

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2022 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • OHW+
  • Join
  • Resources
    • Clinical governance
    • Disability
    • Ergonomics
    • Health surveillance
    • OH employment law
    • OH service delivery
    • Research
    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management
    • Wellbeing and health promotion
  • Conditions
    • Mental health
    • Musculoskeletal disorders
    • Blood pressure
    • Cancer
    • Cardiac
    • Dementia
    • Diabetes
    • Respiratory
    • Stroke
  • CPD
  • Webinars
  • OHW Awards
  • Jobs
  • Personnel Today