BITC Health and Work Summit

BITC Health and Work Summit

Practical solutions by business for business

12 May 2009
Kings Fund, Central London

This one day conference is a must-attend event for anyone responsible for maximising the value of employees at a time when this is the key challenge facing UK organisations.

•  Make the business case for investing in employee health and wellbeing
•  Beat the recession by building the talent and resilience of your people
•  Cut the costs of presenteeism and absence and boost employee engagement
•  Be inspired by award winning case studies
•  Take away a suite of new tools providing support and guidance for companies of all sizes
•  Be prepared for the government’s plans to improve the health and wellbeing of working age people

Learn from Leading Experts and Employers: 

• Stephen Howard, Chief Executive, Business in the Community (BITC)
• Noel O’Reilly, Senior Editor, Personnel Today and XpertHR Group
• Alex Gourlay, Chairman, Business Action on Health, Chief Executive, Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots
• Prof Dame Carol Black, National Director, Health and Work
• Stephen Flanagan, Managing Director, BUPA Home Health Care
• Stephen Bevan, Managing Director, The Work Foundation
• Louise Aston, Director, Business Action on Health, BITC
• Peter MacDonald, HR Director, Parcelforce Worldwide
• Dr Margaret Samuel, Chief Medical Officer, EDF Energy
• David Batman, Group Chief Medical Officer, Nestlé UK

Workshop leaders

• Angela Coleshill, HR Director, Food and Drink Federation
• Bob Grove, Director of the Employment Programme, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health 
• Barry Brooks, Director for Education and Skills Strategy, Tribal
• Andy Buxton, Health Standards Manager, National Grid