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Priority Health Protector - Making health a priority

In what is considered by many to be the most challenging trading environment for a generation, there has never been a more opportune time for employers to embrace a  Low Cost/High Perceived Value Benefit that  delivers a phenomenal return on investment – reducing absence, preventing litigation and supporting staff. Welcome to a very different style of Employer Benefit – a benefit that is also greatly valued by employees.

The facts speak for themselves but what are the key drivers?

  • 11.4 million working days are lost per annum due to stress, anxiety and depression (HSE).
  • It is estimated that 27,000 cases of Cardiac Disease per annum are attributable to stress (HSE).
  • The average length of absence in a stress related case is 27.4 days (UK HSE).
  • 32% of Work Related stress cases result in an absence period which exceeds 32 days (THOR – Manchester University).
  • Stress is the single most common cause for long term absence in non-manual workers (HSE).

(Statistics above derived from Health & Safety Executive (UK) and Manchester University (UK).

But What Is Priority Health Protector?

Priority Health Protector is a unique product, designed to Reduce Absence, Prevent Litigation, Promote Wellness as well as providing much appreciated Support for  Employees.

Your staff will benefit from access to an engaging Online Health Portal, which not only includes Emotional Support videos, Factsheets and Fitness Information, it also offers unlimited access to a comprehensive online Health Assessment application, along with a HSE compliant Personal coaching Tool.

Serious Illness, Disability & Accident Support. Specialist Nurses are on hand to offer support and advice following the diagnosis of a serious illness, Disability, or in the event of a serious accident. If appropriate a member of our specialist nursing team will visit your employee at home. As part of the cover provided, Complementary Therapy is offered post Cancer, and Speech Therapy post Stroke.

What's In It For Me? (as the employer)
Priority Health Protector will increase productivity in the workplace, and if well publicised and utilised will demonstrate a clear duty of care thus preventing litigation and reducing absence levels.

Priority Health Protector includes a unique Occupational Health element, whereby our team of qualified clinicians will contact an employee on the day that we are notified of an absence linked to stress and undertake a thorough review.  You as the Line Manager will receive a comprehensive report, which will detail what adjustments should be considered in order to facilitate a return to work.

A staggering 94.7% of employees return to work within just 14 days following the Occupational Health intervention.

Click here for an idea of typical costs.

For more information about Priority Health Protector, please contact PHP on 01274 588862 or email development@php.co.uk

Strictly Come Dancing came to Yorkshire earlier this year when 8 Directors and Managers from PHP, including Managing Director Stuart Scullion, donned their sequins and leotards to dance ‘ballroom' and ‘latin' in ‘Strictly PHP', their very own version of Strictly Come Dancing for charity.

Abigail Jones & Ross Hartley
Learning dances such as the quickstep, foxtrot, jive and cha cha, over a 12 week period, each PHP dancer teamed up with a professional partner to learn their own personal dance routine which they then performed to a paying audience. 
Stuart Scullion & Lisa Byers

Eventually won by Marketing Manager, Abigail Jones dancing the waltz, the event had an audience of over 180 and raised £6156 for PHP's charity of the year Leeds Children's Hospital. The money will be spent in the new Children's Out Patients department at the hospital, where distraction walls will be painted to help those children receiving treatment.  

Stuart Scullion said, "This was without question one of the most daunting and scariest things I've ever done. That said, it was great fun, we had a lot of laughs (and sleepless nights) along the way. On behalf of all the dancers, a really big thank you goes to our supporters who enabled such a large sum of money to be raised for a very worthwhile cause and the individuals who actually made the event possible, especially the professional dancers who gave their time up for our crazy idea."

Richard Gould & Christine Husbands
Andi Lonnen & Mark Bassett
 

Looking after your health

Most of us like to think we are fit and healthy.  Society today seems to be obsessed with the food we eat and how much we weigh but have you thought about the underlying health issues that healthy eating and exercise may not solve?

A health screening can identify the key risks related to heart disease and give advice on how a change in lifestyle can help prevent these. They can also measure how stress affects you with a High Sensitivity CRP Test which looks at the inflammation of the arteries.  There are also simpler screenings that assess blood pressure, blood glucose and metabolic rate, these can start from as little as £35.   

Having the flexibility to choose a fully comprehensive screening or a more simple check means that health screenings no longer have to be something aimed purely at senior managers. 

The backless clinical gowns and trip to a clinic is a thought not relished by many people, but health screenings don't have to be like that.  The screening process can now be completed in the workplace, and the only thing you need to remove is your shoes and socks.  

Working with our partner, Prevent plc, PHP can offer a health screening programme that is:

  • Conducted privately, confidentially and very conveniently within a room in your workplace.
  • Delivered by experienced screening practitioners and supported by GPs.
  • Able to provide most of the results including blood tests during the screen, enabling the practitioner to offer expert advice to the specific individual and address any concerns the participant may have.
  • Supplemented by 365 days of telephone medical support.
  • Able to produce anonymous consolidated programme results for the employer along with advice on appropriate issues.

"As people learnt about their body fat, visceral fat, cholesterol and glucose levels, we saw proactive change, with many individuals re-evaluating their life-styles, losing weight and exercising more. In addition, several employees discovered underlying health problems they would not have otherwise known about, such as diabetes, and were able to address these at an early stage ... we have already signed up to repeat the health screening offer to our employees this year!."

Kate Daines, HR Director, Vax Limited

To view examples of the health screenings available and the associated costs please click here

For more information about Health Screening or any of our health related services please contact Andrew Middleton on 01274 588862 or andrew.middleton@php.co.uk

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