BITC Health & Wellbeing

BITC Health and Work Summit
Practical solutions by business for business

11 May 2010
Kings Fund, London

Sickness absence costs UK employers £8.4 billion a year but £15.1 billion a year is lost through reduced productivity at work (presenteeism).  Presenteeism accounts for 1.5 times as much working time lost as absenteeism.  

This one day Summit will focus on practical solutions for building employee wellbeing and engagement to maximise the productivity of your organisation. 

• Make the business case for investing in employee health and wellbeing
• Articulate the link between employee wellbeing and engagement to increased productivity
• Receive BITC’s new research by MORI about FTSE 100 public reporting trends
• Understand why human capital management is responsible business practice and the connection to sustainable business performance  
• Be inspired by award winning case studies
• Take away BITC’s new Working Joints and Muscles Toolkit that provides practical solutions to address musculoskeletal issues developed by top practitioners

Learn from Leading Experts and Employers:

• Alex Gourlay, CEO, Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots
• Stephen Howard, Chief Executive, Business in the Community (BITC)
• Louise Aston, Director, Business Action on Health, BITC
• Henry Stewart Chief Executive, Happy Computers
• Prof Dame Carol Black, National Director, Health & Work
• Prof Cary Cooper, Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University
• Fiona Dawson, Managing Director, Mars Chocolate UK
• Noel O’Reilly, Senior Editor, Personnel Today and XpertHR Group
• Julie McDowell, Head of Socially Responsible Investment, Standard Life
• Alan Walters, HR Director UK & Ireland, Unilever

Workshop Leaders:

• Zoe Eccleston, Wellbeing Manager, RWE npower
• David Butler, Health and Safety Manager, Parcelforce Worldwide
• Alex Perry, Managing Director, Bupa Wellness
• Richard Ellis, Group Head of CR, Alliance Boots