The business case for OH, Part 2

Part 2: long live the ROI – making the data work for you

Summary:

In the second of a two-part article in making the business case for occupational health, Andrew Gilbey takes a fictional company and explains how its OH services might make the case for investing in a project to reduce the organisation’s sickness absence burden.   

PART 1 of this two-part examination of the occupational health (OH) business case considered the broad principles in convincing an organisation’s decision-makers of the merits for investing in…

Andrew Gilbey is executive 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 October/November 2014 (vol. 11/3) pp22-26

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