Our Healthy Workplace Derbyshire team are offering free NHS Health Checks and Body MOT Plus to workplaces across Derbyshire.

Heart disease and strokes are some of the UK’s biggest killers and cost £14 billion per year in lost productivity.

Our Health Check programme helps people spot early signs of serious health conditions such as heart disease, strokes and other health conditions and can offer them personalised advice on how to keep well.

We’d like to hear from businesses across the county who would be interested in hosting a free check up in their workplace.

Why offer free health checks to your staff?

With workplace health initiatives like health checks, you can help your staff keep healthy as well as:

  • increase productivity
  • increase job satisfaction
  • reduce sickness absence
  • reduce staff turnover

Who can have a health check?

All staff in your workplace can have exactly the same health check - they will just be called slightly different things.

NHS Health Check

For staff members who meet the following criteria for the national NHS Health Check programme:

  • aged 40-74
  • registered with a Derbyshire GP and
  • without certain medical conditions or medications

We will record their check as an NHS Health Check and, with their permission, we will share the results with their GP.

Body MOT Plus

For staff members who don’t meet the NHS criteria above we will offer them the exact same health check, but this will be recorded as a Body MOT Plus and we would not routinely share results with their GP.

Benefits to the workplace

Employers have an important role to play in the health and wellbeing of employees and by doing so a workplace will gain the following:

A good reputation

Investing in workplace wellbeing shows you value your employees, spreading the word to working partnerships, customers and the wider general public.

Enhanced productivity

Research shows that employees who are both physically and mentally healthier are more productive.

Job satisfaction and retention

Employees who feel valued are more likely to remain loyal to their workplace meaning that employers have a reduced staff turnover and fewer associated costs.

Reduced illness and absenteeism

Striving for a healthy workforce may mean that employees have fewer days off work resulting in overall better attendance.

A content workforce

Employees spend a lot of their time at work and a happy workplace means staff are more likely to be motivated.

A reduction in stress

Work-related stress is one of the main causes of mental and physical ill health in the UK.  A workplace that offers a holistic approach to employee wellbeing will see the benefits with a reduction in work-related stress.

How do you carry out health checks?

We can run the health check programme at most workplaces.

We will need some basic facilities like a confidential space with internet access and your help to enable interested workers to take part during their work time.

We can also run the programme at a nearby venue if it is easier for you.

The health checks will usually take place over one or two days, depending on the size of your workforce 

Find out more 

If your workplace is interested in more information about onsite  Health Checks  please follow the link below and select ‘Health Checks and body MOTs’.

Healthy Workplaces Derbyshire Register of Interest.

You can also use the form to select other areas of support you may require in your workplace.

Alternatively you can visit the Derbyshire.gov.uk website or email healthy.workplaces@derbyshire.gov.uk.