ABOUT US

Hessington Health has been providing occupational health services to a variety of sectors within the City of London and the home counties for over 15 years. We are proud to offer our clients a bespoke service by better understanding their individual needs. Some clients require a full end-to-end occupational health solution to meet corporate governance requirements and others require a specific solution. Irrespective of your needs we are here to help craft a bespoke solution for you.
The majority of our clients utilise all of our services for a full end-to-end occupational health solution and others take a pick-and-mix approach. As no two companies are the same, we understand that bespoke solutions are required. Our services include:

  • Sickness absence monitoring
  • Complex case management referral for all forms of occupational health concerns
  • Workplace drug testing Flu vaccination campaigns
  • Employee wellbeing health screening
  • Educational seminars onsite or via video link
  • Wellbeing digital solutions

WHY SICKNESS MANAGEMENT MATTERS

The UK’s economic cost of sickness absence is over £100 billion a year. There are legislative requirements for employers to look at the health and wellbeing of their workforce. This also comes with compliance challenges, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. Hessington Health will assist your organisation through this process by offering employees wellness screening.

Wellness in the workplace is important. The HSE estimates that muscular disorders were responsible for 9.5 million lost working days in 2005/6, and 13.8 million working days were lost in 2006/7 due to work-related stress. Stress and lower back pain cost the British economy £3.7 billion and £5 billion per year respectively.

According to the Confederation of British Industry, sickness absence can cost roughly £495 per employee per year, which can be a high cost for a small to
medium-sized enterprise.
In 2022, the ONS estimated 185.6 million working days were lost due to sickness absence and injury in the UK.
In 2023, CIPD reported the highest sickness absence rate for over a decade with the average absence rate per employee being 7.8 days.

We have extensive experience with assisting companies in dealing with the problem of sickness absence. Our statistics show that for the average company, we have reduced the average number of sick leave days per employee from 8 days a year to 1.8 days a year.

DRUG SCREENING IN THE WORKPLACE

Employees who engage in illicit drug use not only put themselves at risk in the workplace, but they may also put the general public at risk. It is a legal requirement for safety-critical employees (SCEs) to have a random drug test every year.

Whether your organisation employs SCEs or not, employees engaging in illicit drug use will cost your organisation in numerous ways. We specialise in profiling the company workforce and creating a drug screening protocol for that organisation. We manage the random drug screening process and can offer support for those who test positive if required. The tests are also legally robust should the results be required for performance management and legal reasons.

The drug screening profile covers:

  • Alcohol
  • MDMA
  • Cocaine
  • Cannabinoids
  • Codeine
  • Dihydrocodeine
  • Benzodiazepine
  • Barbiturates
  • Amphetamine
  • Methadone
  • Morphin

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CORPORATES

We are a private occupational health service that supports organisations across a variety of sectors including education, engineering, security and financial services. We also deliver specialists wellbeing services for staff through webinars and lectures.

Our core services include:

  • Advising HR on pre-employment health questionnaires.
  • Prompt OH assessment within 7 days via video conference or telephone for urgent cases.
  • Face to face occupational health assessment within 2 weeks of referral (for over 90% of referrals).
  • Experts in managing long term, complex sickness absence.
  • The provision of robust and legally compliant reports which will be evidence based and appropriately referenced.
  • Legally compliant advice and guidance on your obligations under the Equality Act 2010, with clear instructions on reasonable adjustments.
  • Joint ownership in monitoring cases with HR when required.
  • Access to our OH-Client Portal which provides vital resources to help support the occupational health referral process
  • We provide you with all the relevant legally complaint referral documents your require to make legally compliant referrals
  • Promoting wellbeing within the corporate environment through webinars and lectures.