Free Health Check at your workplace

27/01/15 . Partners

The Fit for Work Team is offering to visit employers to run free NHS Health Checks.

For a limited time, our friends at the Fit for Work Team are offering to visit workplaces to deliver free NHS Health Checks to male employees over the age of 40.

The checks are designed to identify the early warning signs of silent killers including Heart Disease, Kidney Disease, Diabetes and others. Although the checks are available through GP surgeries, research shows that those who are most at risk are not taking up these free checks and their symptoms are going undetected.

By offering these through your workplace, you can help to reduce long-term sickness absence costs, improve employee loyalty and retain your ageing workforce. The Health Checks are also a good and easy way of fulfilling pledges for the Responsibility Deal.

If you would like further information about how you can sign up to the free checks please contact Rachel on 07825 703 637 or by email.

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It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

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