Why businesses need Mental Health First Aiders
Our head of clinical governance, Suzanne Marshall RN explains why mental health first aid should be front of mind for leadership teams.
read more5 reasons employers need to get closer to their staff
Practicing social distancing at work is a wise precaution for all of us. However, the pandemic has highlighted a more fundamental need to be closer. Steve Carter explains why leadership teams in large organisations need more engagement with their employees.
read moreIs it Covid? How FirstCare nurses triage symptoms …and what to do next.
Suzanne Marshall RN, FirstCare’s Head of Clinical Governance provides her latest guidance on identifying Covid-19 and explains how her team of nurses deal with callers presenting possible symptoms.
read moreReady for the Second Wave: Our Covid Story
When Covid-19 hit in March, FirstCare faced a spike in demand that tested our systems, our technology and our people more than we could have imagined. In this article, Ed Lane and John Coyne explain how the we maintained critical services during the first wave pandemic... and how we prepared for the second.
read moreFirstCare’s CEO talks to Open Access Government about tackling mental health in the workplace
FirstCare’s CEO Ian Caminsky discusses how data can be used to tackle the rising epidemic of mental health-related absence in the workplace. With our data showing that 60% of workers will leave their job following two mental health-related absences, Ian explains how organisations can use data to inform wellbeing policies, ensuring vital conversations about mental health take place.
read moreAs the pandemic emerged in March, FirstCare’s CEO spoke to Workplace Insight about historic absence levels in the NHS
The NHS lost nearly ten days per employee to absence in 2019. FirstCare’s CEO Ian Caminsky explains how our health service can use data to reduce absence and help support NHS workers. As the NHS looks to level up its technology, executives and policymakers should remember to look to the basics first: using data to understand why staff are having to take sick days and be absent from work.
read moreFirstCare’s CEO explains why workers in the public sector are more likely to miss work
In this article, published in March 2020, Ian Caminsky explains there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to the problem of public sector workers missing more work than private sector employees. He says leaders in the public sector must properly analyse available absence data and develop strategies to ensure employees thrive.
read moreFirstCare’s CEO explains to Mad World Summit the measures businesses should take to end the productivity decline
FirstCare’s CEO Ian Caminsky outlines how businesses can address the UK’s productivity problems by managing absence and supporting employees’ mental and physical health. Ian explains how in addressing the causes of absence businesses will reduce costs, improve employee wellbeing and increase productivity in the workplace/
read moreBritain's £5billion hangover: January 2 tops sickie list as one in eight workers is predicted to take a day off with illness – Daily Mail
People calling in sick on the first working day of the new year will cost the UK economy £4.9bn, FirstCare has found. The data was released exclusively to the Daily Mail.
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