London's business case for employee health and well-being

London faces a number of health/work related issues with a greater percentage of people with health problems being workless in London than nationally, with fewer people with disabilities finding work, whilst the majority of Londoners on incapacity benefits have preventable and/or treatable conditions.

Employee ill health has costs to employers as well as to the individual and society. It has been estimated that an average London firm of 250 employees loses around £250,000 a year due to ill health.

Evidence would indicate that well designed employee welfare programmes that are integrated into the core of the firm can more than cover the costs of such a programme to the firm. The benefits of these programmes accrue not only to the firms running them but to the employee and society as a whole.