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Employee Health Checks for the Workplace
Blood pressure and body composition checks for employees delivered in your workplace
- Scaleable options for small or large businesses
- Help staff identify health risks before they develop
- Backed by NHS-standard, clinically validated equipment
Starting from £825 + VAT per day (£11.46 per employee).
Full-day event
Delivered face-to-face in your workplace
Up to 72 attendees per day
Perfect for all staff
Anonymised post-even report included
What is an Employee Health Check?
An Employee Health Check is a medically validated body composition check designed to help the attendee get an understanding of their overall health, using our state of the art Health Check Point equipment.
We use a set of clinically validated scales that, in just a few seconds, tell you your:
- Blood pressure
- Body fat and muscle mass
- Visceral (internal) fat rating
- Body water score
- BMI and weight
- Metabolic rate (how your body uses energy)
- Metabolic age (how you rate against your actual age)
Starting from £825 + VAT per day (£11.46 per employee).
What's the format of a Workplace Health Check Day?
This event runs best as a group activity – this way, it allows us to get the most number of attendees tested per day. Additionally, a group format creates a great buzz around the workplace, and can often inspire some friendly competition.
- Format: Groups of 6 people every 30 minutes.
- Capacity: 72 employee health checks per day.
- Scaling:Â We can add additional practitioners to test 144+ staff per day.
- Testing: Employees go through test stations individually.
- Review: The group then comes together for a review, lifestyle guidance, and goal setting.
- Privacy: Results remain completely private. Employees can choose if they want to share results.
We can also run appointments as one-to-one private sessions with a lower total capacity, ideal for for smaller workplaces or if your employees prefer a more personal apprach.
30% of adults had hypertension (high blood pressure), including 15% with untreated hypertension.
Source – NHS
The cost of obesity and being overweight to the UK economy is estimated to be around £30 billion annually in lost productivity.
Source – Nesta
Only 6 in 10 adults in the England reach the recommended minimum physical activity per week, with 1 in 4 being completely inactive.
Source – Sport England
Why should your workplace have a corporate health check day?
An employee health check day will give attendees a wide variety of health stats, including:
- Blood pressure score.
- Body fat, muscle mass, and, visceral (internal) fat
- Body water score
- BMI and weight
- Metabolic rate and age
These are fantastic indicators for the overall health of an individual and help to highlight potential (and hidden) health problems:
- Blood pressure – high blood pressure can go unnoticed, but is one of the biggest killers worldwide.
- Visceral fat – hidden fat surrounding organs that can contrbute to diseases like type-2 diabetes.
- Muscle mass – an indicator of how much muscle your body carries, lower levels indicating MSK risks.
- Plus much more.
Clients of all sizes and budgets love working with us
Confidential, Relaxed, Engaging
“The event was really well received by all staff, although some were a bit nervous before Natasha put everyone at ease and all found the session valuable. Although some of our staff were nervous the event was confidential, relaxed and engaging for individuals, with some useful take home actions.”
Lesley S.
Director of HR – West Mids. Employers
Brilliant from Start to Finish
“We’ve run Employee Health Check days across seven of our offices and they’ve been a great success. The New Leaf team has been brilliant from start to finish. Our staff very much enjoyed the sessions and found the feedback from the friendly practitioners really helpful.”
Kath B.
Wellbeing Manager – ITV
Boost Morale
“The Health Check Point Days definitely boost morale at the locations where they are carried out and have lead to interventions for staff who may not have been picked up otherwise.”
Stuart A.
Head of Safety – GB Railfreight
Medically Validated Employee Health Checks available UK-wide
Employee health checks are an ideal way to promote healthy living in your workplace. It gives staff access to information that would otherwise require visiting a medical professional, such as a doctor.
This event, therefore, is a fantastic and interactive way to engage the workforce. By attending, your employees will get to know their blood pressure, body fat, visceral fat, muscle mass and much more.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to review their results with one of our experienced practitioners, to understand how to improve or maintain their results.
Starting from £825 + VAT per day (£11.46 per employee).
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How do Employee Health Checks Work?
Blood Pressure Testing
Attendees will use our medically-validated blood pressure monitors to get an accurate score, printed out on a small slip of paper.
Height Measure
Next, attendees will use our medical height measure apparatus to get an accurate height – used for calculating BMI.
Body Composition Scales
Following this, attendees will then step onto our medically-validated body composition scales. These pass a small (it can’t even be felt) electric signal through the legs – in just a few seconds – to measure body fat, muscle mass and more.
Review and Lifestyle Advice
Then, our practitioner will go through the results with attendees, helping them plot their scores on our tracker sheets. Attendees are free to share their results, or they can keep them private if they wish.
Retesting and Referrals
Finally, if an attendee has high-risk results, particularly blood pressure, our practitioners will invite them back for re-testing later in the day. If an attendee still has high results, they will suggest the next course of action, such as visiting a GP for further testing.
Not sure which option to choose?
We’ve put together a comprehensive guide on our different corporate health check options. Click below to take a look and compare different health intervention approaches for your employees.
What's tested during Employee Health Checks?
- Blood pressure, plus resting heart rate
- Body fat percentage
- Muscle mass
- Visceral fat rating (the dangerous fat that surrounds internal organs)
- Body water score
- Height and BMI
- Metabolic rate (how your body uses energy)
- Metabolic age (how your metabolic rate compares to the average for your age)
What You'll Learn from your post-Employee Health Check Report
As part of your Employee Health Check package, you’ll receive a post-event report on the health of your organisation.
The data is completely anonymised, so the results of individual employees won’t be shared – only aggregated anonymous data.
You’ll learn how many of your staff are at risk based on their stats, as well as knowing how many of your employees were recommended to visit their GP for further testing.
This is an incredible tool not only for informing your wellbeing strategy and future initiatives, but for demonstrating to senior leaders the value of investing in workplace wellbeing.
More Information about Employee Health Checks
The Benefits of an Employee Health Check
Our Workplace Health Check functions as a preventative health check. This means that attendees will learn about their risk of a range of serious health conditions, including:
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Heart attack
- Strokes
- Type-2 diabetes
Attendees will then receive expert guidance on how to make practical lifestyle changes in order to reduce their risk and to lead a healthier life moving forward.
One of the most prominent at-risk scores that we see in employee health checks is for high blood pressure. Our machines are of clinical standard, so for any attendees with high results (according to Public Health England’s guidelines), we advise that they seek further investigation – whether that’s ongoing monitoring, a visit to their GP, or an urgent trip to hospital.
Is a Staff Health Check Like a GP or Hospital Appointment?
Getting a GP appointment is incredibly difficult currently, especially for a general health check. That’s why organisations around the UK use our services to help individuals identify key health risks.
Our Employee Health Checks are carried out using guidelines that are in place at a national level in the UK. These include NICE guidelines, NHS guidelines, and information and guidance from the UK government.
So, whilst our Workplace Health Checks aren’t carried out by a doctor or a nurse (they’re carried out by a qualified and experienced health practitioner), the tests are of the same standard that you’d expect from a medical setting.
For individuals with at-risk results, they will be able to take their employee health check scores to their GP or care provider for further investigation, safe in the knowledge that the tests were safe and accurate.
Who can have an Employee Health Check?
Our Health Check Point equipment is suitable for almost everyone. The only people who shouldn’t use the equipment are those with a pacemaker or other internal device fitter, and those who are pregnant. This is due to the nature of the body composition scales, which pass a small electrical signal (totally unnoticeable) through the feet.
Attendees who can’t use the scales are still able to have their blood pressure taken, though. They’re also welcome to join the lifestyle review aspect of the sessions, which is still full of useful information and takeaways.
How Accurate is the Equipment?
All of the equipment we use for our Employee Health Checks is medically validated. In other words, it’s designed to be used in a clinical setting by medical professionals, so you can trust the accuracy of the tests.
The equipment is also used within the NHS as part of national testing programmes such as the NHS Health Checks and Health MOTs.
Will the Results be Private?
Absolutely.
Employee Health Check results, including blood pressure scores, are printed on small paper receipts that the attendees keep.
Results are also stored automatically on a laptop. We don’t take any names or identifying information, though, so this information is stored completely anonymously.
What is the Post-Event Report?
All of the data collected (anonymously) during the Employee Health Check Day is collated into a report giving you an overview of the health of staff in your workplace.
This report shows stats such as the percentage of staff with at-risk or high:
- Blood pressure
- BMI
- Visceral fat levels
- Average health (metabolic) age, versus actual age.
These stats will help you inform your wellbeing programme moving forward, identifying areas to help improve the health of your staff.
Can Staff Health Checks be Developed Into a Long-Form Wellbeing Programme?
Employee Health Checks are a great basis for any workplace wellbeing programme. But how do you keep the momentum going as you move forward?
To help your attendees monitor their numbers, we typically recommend retesting after 6 to 12 months. This also allows new staff to get to know their numbers, too. You can do this via a facilitated day, as described on this page, or we can also rent the equipment out to you, so staff can test themselves in their own time.
We can then build on the key health takeaways from the tests with a variety of wellbeing webinars and wellbeing workshops, if that’s identified as something that would help your business.
We can also explore further testing with your workforce, including cholesterol and blood glucose screening – both of which are indicators of serious cardiovascular diseases.
Are Health Checks at Work Compulsory?
While workplace health checks are not a legal requirement, they are highly recommended as a proactive way to support employee wellbeing and to catch potential health issues early. Understanding the overall health status of your employees helps to reduce absenteeism, and improve the productivity of your employees.
What other Wellbeing Services do you offer?
As well as staff health checks, we also offer a wide range of workplace wellbeing services to help your team stay healthy, happy, and productive. These include employee resilience and wellbeing training, menopause support, workplace counselling services, and mental health awareness training.
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Starting from £825 + VAT per day