Employers Sick Of Absenteeism Have Found A cure

Active Health Partnersí (AHP) new service has cut workplace absenteeism by up to 30% for their clients and assists in reducing the impact of employee absence, ill health and health-related litigation.

AHP are specialists in the provision of Absence Management and Accident Reporting to government organisations, call centres, retail, logistics and distribution companies, financial institutions, care homes and airport services.

The innovative service provides a Nurse Contact Centre for employees to report absences due to sickness or any other health related reason. Qualified nurses provide primary health advice to the employee and on their behalf inform line managers immediately of the absence by email and mobile text message.

Integral to the service is the sophisticated data capture system which provides real-time reports via the web to managers and HR professionals which allows them to spend less time collecting absence information and more time addressing absenteeism.

AHP further provides the recording of accidents at work and case management of complex cases (e.g. injury at work or frequent absence).

AHPís nurses offer health advice 24/7 to over 20,000 employees in the UK and record their absences. Since January 2005 AHP has logged over 40,000 interactions.

Increasingly, ill health and absence is on the radar screen of senior management and more proactive measures need to be taken to deliver significant health improvements and cost savings.

ìMany employers ñ in the private and public sectors ñ are taking serious steps to reduce absence levels, but their internal resources are not always effective in identifying the true drivers of absence,î comments Simon Dickinson, Business Development Director at AHP.

ìOur service provides a genuine employee benefit and delivers the quality management information necessary to enable better visibility of absence trends and a greater understanding of the ërealí reasons for absence.î