Business Health Matters

“企业健康重要”项目的重点是“健康老龄化挑战框架”的“在工作中保持健康”这一主题。该项目旨在为兰开夏郡的劳动年龄个人及其雇主制定一项有效的支助方案，使他们能够保持健康或恢复健康，从而维持就业和提高生产率。作为开发的一部分，该项目将对一种模式进行道路测试，这种模式既可以在英国其他地区特许经营，也可以作为其他地区可以采用的典范，并有机会为新采用者提供咨询服务。该项目的主要特点是进一步开发、研究和测试中央兰开夏大学(UCLAN)已经开发的一种筛查工具，该工具将使休闲服务人员能够对处于工作年龄的人进行筛查，评估他们的身心健康。然后，这一筛查工具将与一套心理和身体健康干预措施相结合，与服务提供商合作，支持工作老年人保持健康或恢复健康，从而维持就业和提高生产率。该项目将寻求以以前在兰开夏郡或其他地方从未见过的规模促进这一方法的应用。作为该项目的一部分，我们将寻求动员锚定机构提供的资金，以支持该方案的制定和实施。工作基金会将对支持员工健康老龄化的公司的良好就业做法进行研究，以此作为工作的基础。该项目还将寻求影响政策，并利用Anchor机构在采购中的杠杆作用，使这一领域的良好就业实践成为其供应链的要求。该项目涉及公共部门、社会企业、学术机构和最终(第二阶段)私营部门之间的合作，以解决健康老龄化、自我护理、福祉、可持续就业和生产力等国家优先事项。该项目更广泛的意义在于，它有可能减少对全科医生服务的需求，在训练有素的卫生人员短缺的情况下聘用新的劳动力提供与卫生相关的服务，减少对高成本急性服务的需求，提高劳动力的生产率，从而提高公司/经济的盈利能力。

The 'Business Health Matters' project is focussed on the 'Maintaining Health at Work' theme of the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework. The project aims to develop an effective programme of support to individuals of working age and their employers in Lancashire, to enable them to remain healthy or regain health and so sustain employment and improve productivity. As part of the development, the project will road test a model that can be either franchised in other areas of the UK, or can be offered as an exemplar that other areas can adopt, with the opportunity to provide consultancy services to new adopters. The key features of the project are further development, research and testing of a screening tool already developed by University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) that will enable leisure services staff to administer screening for working age people which will assess their physical and mental health. This screening tool will then be coupled will a suite of mental and physical health interventions that can support working aged individuals to remain healthy or regain health and so sustain employment and improve productivity, working with service providers. The project will look to facilitate the application of this approach at a scale not seen previously either in Lancashire or elsewhere. As part of the project we will look to mobilise funding available from Anchor Institutions to support the development and implementation of the programme. Work will be underpinned by the research of The Work Foundation on good employment practice in companies supporting healthy ageing in their workforce. The project will also look to influence policy and use Anchor institutions leverage in their procurement to make good employment practice in this field a requirement for their supply chains.The project involves collaboration between public sector, social enterprises, academic institutions and ultimately (Stage 2) private sector to address national priorities of healthy ageing, self-care, wellbeing, sustainable employment and productivity. The broader significance of the project is that it has the potential to reduce demand on GP services, engage a new workforce in delivery of health-related services at a time of shortages of trained health staff term, reduce demand on high cost acute services and increase productivity of the workforce and so profitability of companies/economy.