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Its gyms and facilities employ over 400,000 professionals and see 500 million individual visits, generating £85.5 billion in social and economic value every year*. The physical activity sector is well-equipped to support healthy ageing and HLE+5, and can help to ease pressures on the healthcare system, the economy, and support recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/4d4a5f37-0c40-41a8-8bcc-c2f75052e6c2/SOM+logo+cmyk.jpg Network - Make it stand out SOM membership is for anyone working in and with an interest in occupational health. Membership demonstrates a commitment to improving health at work, supports professional development and improves future employability enhancing our members’ reputation and employability. Members are part of a multidisciplinary community – including doctors, technicians, nurses, health specialists and other professionals. 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ARK represents King’s world class excellence for research on the biology of ageing, from the basic mechanisms in biogerontology to clinical translation and the social impact of ageing to better inform global policy makers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1623232347229-FE066OYUFUU6F4P5OQMR/FF+logo+2020.png Network - Make it stand out The Food Foundation is a UK-based food policy charity with a vision for a sustainable food system that can deliver health and wellbeing for all. We run a range of projects from research to implementation, giving us strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders and allowing us to facilitate introductions and create multi-level connections. 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Lyfe does this by solving challenges HR Directors and Wellbeing leads have today around budget, time & administration, and reporting. With Lyfe, you can choose from hundreds of workshops, webinars and community activities delivered by vetted wellbeing professionals, all managed in a simple to use platform that takes care of the administration, supports maximising engagement and provides data and insights on your programme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/03b502ec-d251-4df8-b79d-abea9ac0794e/HOLIDITY_BLACK_LOGO.png Network - Make it stand out Holidity is a new behaviour change solution for preventative health resulting from the 5-year ’smart wellness’ research work of Dr Julia Jones. Clients include SAP, Oracle, Wickes, Reply Group, Unilever, Vitality, NHS, and ITV. The programme harnesses proven, low effort, and low-cost habit-hacking techniques. Three specific habit-hacks were identified during the research journey. They efficiently and directly target key evolutionary biology circuits underlying the common pain points driving accelerated biological ageing and chronic diseases: stress, sleep, weight management. Holidity now teach these 3, simple, low-effort, low-cost habit-hacks to the working population via employee wellness programmes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/4c0b4448-9878-4920-9cde-d4b20b5f8d0a/Pfizer_Logo_Color_RGB+%281%29.jpg Network - Make it stand out At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. 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We’re working with ambitious and diverse change-makers to shift how they feel, think, act and collaborate to drive systemic change for sustainability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/a5108da3-0340-4879-b385-eb80cf94b49f/Slide1.jpg Network Longevity Leaders are a global network of influencers from the worlds of ageing science, consumer products, finance, technology, policy, and investment. Our events sit at the centre of a global ecosystem, connecting people, knowledge, and investment in emerging longevity sectors. Our mission is to advance innovations that will extend human health span and enable financial, physical, and mental wellness in later life. Longevity Leaders is a subsidiary of LSX, an influential community of senior life science decision makers. We connect senior life science executives with access to the capital, intelligence, innovation, and partners they need to grow their businesses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/3946feb5-2408-40c1-ab3a-e28c15bae0de/GoodShape.png Network GoodShape is the leading Enterprise Health Management platform solution for organisations seeking proactive, data-led management of employee health and its business impact. With over a decade of experience working with 200+ clients, supporting 1 million+ employees across 20 million+ health events, GoodShape’s proven approach combines real-time data and AI-powered predictive analytics with 24/7 reporting and solutions to help employees get back to work safer and sooner. The GoodShape platform improves employee engagement with health services through timely referrals, significantly reduces risks and costs associated with poor employee health, increases productivity and retention, and mitigates insurance and agency spend. https://www.businessforhealth.org/updates daily 0.75 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1634726307966-CEEKETBP7DGZCEDA5TEW/Cover+%281%29.jpg Updates - with Foreword by Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer In a collaboration with the CBI, Business for Health has been engaging with industry to create a Business Framework for Health. The core purpose of the Framework is to measure business contribution to health and promote the role of business in creating a healthier nation - recognising that health is the foundation for wellbeing and economic growth. The proposed Framework and Business Index aim to showcase what good business-led health intervention looks like, detailing the benefits to both workforce health and business growth. Click here to download the full Framework report. Click here for the press release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1606938495107-6F7T8IEBKKBYUNERBX8F/Next+Avenue+picture.png Updates Tina Woods is interviewed by Chris Farrell in PBS Next Avenue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/b7e6c827-75a6-433f-b6ad-bb06cd5aca43/Lord+Bethell.jpg Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1608394089531-2PH80YLPNTJCCT5FWALZ/Image+for+website.png Updates The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how inadequately prepared Britain was for a virus that is most severe for the least healthy in our society. Business for Health was set up in response to a core recommendation in the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity’s Health of the Nation Strategy to address 'our unhealthy nation', as published in the comment piece published on 8 December in Lancet Healthy Longevity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1603786680314-9GLCCK27HV0XWD46NGW8/WEF+Forum.png Updates Preventative health is vital to build up health and economic resilience. Leaders have an opportunity to provide healthier outcomes for all. The pandemic has highlighted the power of technology to avoid and tackle chronic diseases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/717d2caa-8757-452a-919f-8d09482106d7/Rebooting+the+Nation%27s+Health+Through+the+Workplace+Report+%28Print+quality%29_Page_01.jpg Updates - Business for Health (B4H) joined forces with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to host a Think Tank at the MADWorld Summit in London on 12th October, inviting senior policymakers, industry leaders, technology pioneers and public sector innovators to explore the levers with most impact for business and policy innovation to address workforce inactivity and long-term sickness, particularly in the +50 population. The recommendations are set out in the report ‘Rebooting the Nation’s Health Through the Workplace’ launched at the UKRI-hosted event during Longevity Week. The report will inform B4H’s work for the NIHR Work and Health Development Award involving a consortium of 15 organisations.. Click on the image or here to read the report. Business for Health (B4H) joined forces with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to host a Think Tank at the MADWorld Summit in London on 12th October, inviting senior policymakers, industry leaders, technology pioneers and public sector innovators to explore the levers with most impact for business and policy innovation to address workforce inactivity and long-term sickness, particularly in the +50 population. The recommendations are set out in the report ‘Rebooting the Nation’s Health Through the Workplace’ launched at the UKRI-hosted event during Longevity Week. will inform B4H’s work for the NIHR Work and Health Development Award involving a consortium of 15 organisations. Click here for the report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1603786813108-8M87BSON8WAJZGWCJ4A5/healthiswealth.jpg Updates The Greatest Disruptor Of The 21st Century Makes Health Our Most Precious Asset. Living with the pandemic has become the new normal, and made the world realize that health is our greatest asset and cornerstone of prosperity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1605442919945-UR3OHD6F6DJQ29JBUUUF/CAB.png Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1605302457375-TMZV1AA55FV3FO6KQ2VC/Cover+mag.png Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/5f1269cd-4940-41d2-aec6-b09aa2653774/Jeremy+Hunt.jpeg Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1619780413608-GSH0IO7TN8XLIJN1T48D/Healthspan+2021+Webinar+Business+and+Levelling+Up+Health+2.png Updates - This live panel discussion at the Healthspan Show on 5 May explored the role of business in contributing to the nation’s health following the launch of Levelling Up Health by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity on 9 April to meet the government manifesto commitment of five extra years of healthy life expectancy while minimising health inequalities (‘HLE + 5’). The speakers outlined the different ways in which business can contribute to HLE+5 and how the Business Index- being devised by Business for Health (B4H) to measure business contributions to health, incentivise positive contributions and call out negative ones- can guide a risk management framework for health to enhance the health and economic resilience of the UK. You can read the blog here, watch the recording here and/ contribute to the Business Index here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1603787045338-X53U7O74V9720Q1AO57L/ThinkstockPhotos-dv2092031-880x440.jpg Updates People Are Living Longer, But Not Better—A New Social Contract Is Needed. At the inaugural International Longevity Policy & Governance Summit launch in London, leaders from the around the world gathered to share learnings and experiences on how to address the challenges and seize the opportunities of living longer, and reach consensus on harnessing the “longevity dividend.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/1605302137371-HIEN7IHSOO2C18O6WVZO/Longevity.png Updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9444ec7009945ec749f5d5/5a2bf059-987c-469d-8d27-74497cb59efa/IMAGE+Year+On+Business+Framework+for+Health+Report+April+2023_Page_01.jpg Updates London, 25 April 2023: In a new report by Business for Health, researchers have called for health and wellbeing to be more closely aligned to companies’ ESG strategies amid an alarming increase in the number of people out of work. Business for Health, a business-led coalition working with major employers such as Legal and General and AXA Health, has highlighted the need for an increased focus on workplace health and long-term prevention strategies if the UK is to alleviate pressure on the NHS and boost the economy. In the UK, health-related economic inactivity is costing the economy £180bn a year, with around 650,000 fewer people in the workforce now compared to pre-pandemic levels. Concerningly, the largest rise in long-term sickness has been experienced by those between the ages of 16-24, a rise of 50% since 2006. With an increase in long-term sickness, authors of the report highlighted that incentivising businesses and employers to address health and wellbeing concerns among their employees is essential in the short term. However, a long-term strategy focused on bringing “health” into businesses Environmental, Social, Governance strategy will be vital if the UK is to address systemic issues relating to long-term economic inactivity and ill health. Recently, Business for Health launched its Work Health Index (WHI) with support from HM Government and NHS England to benchmark businesses policies and provisions relating to workplace care. The report announced that throughout 2023, Business for Health will build upon the WHI, testing out metrics gathered from the scheme in real-world projects. This will see Business for Health enter a strategic partnership with The Health Equity Network launched by Sir Michael Marmot who has worked with areas including Greater Manchester, Waltham Forest, Luton, Coventry, Cheshire and Merseyside, and Gwent to uncover issues relating to health inequalities and is now working with the areas on implementation. Health Inequalities remain a significant risk to the UK, with many health risks related to low incomes. Factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity together with social inequalities such as the unequal distribution of income are all drivers of population ill health. This has led to variations in life expectancy across the UK. The report shares key findings and recommendations on the future of workforce design in frontline, lower-wage workers in the retail and hospitality sectors, which have been particularly hard hit by the current economic climate, and must factor in the government’s economic growth plans ahead. Tina Woods, Chief Executive of Business for Health and co-author of the report said: “Health care demands are increasing, costs are climbing, and outcomes are deteriorating with health inequalities on the rise and the healthy life expectancy gap between the richest and poorest citizens widening. We need radical change. Proactive actions need to be taken by businesses to improve population health and boost our economic potential. Today’s report outlines our strategy to support the long-term health of the nation through preventative measures. Following on from the development of the Work Health Index, Business for Health and its partners are looking forward to initiating real world projects across our key three pillars: workforce health, consumer health and community health to shape a healthier and more prosperous Britain.” John Godfrey, Chair of Business for Health and co-author of the report said: “As we manage the effects of the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, evidence is accumulating on the link between health and wealth. Economic growth cannot ignore the health of the population. Companies increasingly see the business case for investing in their employees’ health and productivity , and the best companies actively manage the risks to public health from their activities. Companies need to take these actions in a planned way to forestall an approach that uses regulation, taxation or litigation to drive health improvement. Including health in the ESGH agenda will ensure there is a profound, lasting, and positive impact for society and for business.” The report also outlines key projects supported by Business for Health including, 1) The link between climate and health (and the co-benefits of investing for both); 2) Shaping food environments to reduce obesity and 3) Innovation clusters to create the world test for health, linking healthy people and growth and creating new AI-enabled interventions to promote health in some of the UK’s most deprived populations. Click on image or here for report. https://www.businessforhealth.org/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-16