The business case for OH, Part 1

Part 1: making the business case for occupational health

Summary:

With OH services under increasing pressure to demonstrate value for money, Andrew Gilbey explains how to make the business case for occupational health. The first of the two-part feature looks at the general principles: defining and measuring the problem or opportunity, engaging stakeholders and presenting the case at board level.  

UK businesses are reportedly sitting on £73 billion of cash assets in their balance sheets, and yet it seems harder than ever to…

Andrew Gilbey is operations director of Syngentis, the not-for-profit health and work social enterprise company supporting the NHS Health at Work Network.

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Occupational Health at Work August/September 2014 (vol. 11/2) pp14-16

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