Hounslow’s Healthy Workforce offer
If you’re an employer, making sure your staff are in good health should be one of your top priorities. Most importantly, it’s the right thing to do under your duty of care. But it also increases employee engagement and reduces absence, so it brings benefits for you too.
Free workplace health visits
Hounslow’s Healthy Workforce offer means you can request a completely free visit from local health experts to meet you and your staff, do some free health checks, and offer advice on where they can turn for more support.
In just one visit, we can provide:
- Free 25-minute NHS Health Checks for eligible* people aged 25-74 years old - including BMI, blood pressure blood sugar and cholesterol, plus any relevant healthy living advice
- Professional support and advice to help quit smoking including the Swap to stop offer of free vapes for up to 12 weeks via Healthy Hounslow
*To be eligible, employees should have no record of a health check in the past five years and have no previous or current diagnosis of: diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, stroke, or dementia.
How to book
To book your free Healthy Workplace visit, all you have to do is get in touch with the Public Health Team’s Healthy Workforce Officer, to arrange the date and time.
This offer is completely free and is provided by London Borough of Hounslow’s Public Health team as part of our efforts to address health inequalities and promote good health within our community.
Praise for Healthy Workforce visits
- “Thanks for attending today on-site, we really appreciate the efforts from every one of you. Having workforce wellness as core is very supportive and is really admirable. This is such a great service and even better that it’s free for employers.”
- “The assistance you have given us has resulted in us having a happier and healthier workforce and hopefully some have had things treated, like high blood pressure, before it has led to other medical issues.”
- “We have made a conscious effort to focus on health and wellbeing in the last year and this event really supported us. The continued education and awareness has encouraged people to go to see their GPs to discuss things that are different or have changed in their bodies. Some of these have since had biopsies. Whilst everything has been fine for them, having the education and going through the system has removed the stress caused by not knowing.”
- “We have a number of people with Type 2 diabetes who took time to speak to the diabetes team. This gave them additional information about their diet and condition.”
