Give Workers Health Checks when They Start New Jobs, Says Labour Adviser

Health MOTs at work can fix sick Britain, worklessness tsar says

Give workers health checks when they start new jobs, says Labour adviser

Former John Lewis chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield is leading a government commissioned review into addressing Britain’s sickness crisis.

Tackle workplace sickness to unlock hidden growth, former John Lewis boss says

More than 250 of the UK's biggest employers have signed up to his 'Get Britain Working' taskforce.

Tackling workplace sickness would unlock growth 'hiding in plain sight', says former John Lewis boss

More than 250 of Britain’s biggest employers, including British Airways, Tesco and Royal Mail, have signed up to a new taskforce led by Sir Charlie Mayfield aimed at stemming the flow of workers dropping out of the labour market through ill-health, a problem officially costed at £212bn a year. The former John Lewis chairman, whose Keep Britain Working review laid bare the scale of Britain’s sickness problem last year, said tackling unemployment …