12 Jul 2005

The UK’s largest corporate occupational health provider will be created from 1 October when the integration of BMI Health Services with Capita Health Solutions is completed. The combined operation, to be named Capita Health Solutions, will have approximately 500 employees and annual revenue of over £34m.

Zafar Raja, Managing Director, Capita Health Solutions says: “As part of our vision to become the leading provider of outsourced occupational health solutions in the UK we believe that the integration of BMI Health Services provides an ideal match enabling us to achieve this. By joining the largest provider of occupational health services to the public sector to our existing market leading provision to the private sector we are able to offer UK wide services for all organisations.”

“Capita Health Solutions can reinforce its reputation as a leader in the provision of innovative health solutions and it will allow us to provide an ever improving quality of service to our clients.”

Occupational Health Services are offered by Capita’s clinical team through its own network of 16 centres across the UK supported by an online case tracking and reporting system. Its strength lies in marrying technology a strong clinical base and harnessing the most efficient practices in occupational health provision. It is the only provider of the full range of end to end corporate occupational health services.

Dr. Simon Sheard, Medical Director of Capita Health Solutions says: “Occupational health services need to support a manager to question, challenge and support an employee through a period of sickness absence. The pre-dominant employment culture is currently is based on a premise that absence is genuine and therefore unmanageable. Culture change can be enabled with the implementation of our absence support systems, integrated with HR systems. Managers are able to be better informed and to ensure employees receive appropriate health advice and rehabilitative treatment.”

He continues: “We see our duty as the largest employer and trainer of occupational health professionals outside of the NHS, for our teams to ensure managers are confident to deal with both genuine and inappropriate absence and to help in making employees feel part of an improved social interaction with their employer.”

Capita Health Solutions is the market leader in the provision of health solutions in the areas of:

Pension assessments - Capita Health Solution has unrivalled expertise in enabling firms to reduce the pressure and cost on their company pensions schemes by increase their efficiency in the management of ill-health retrial cases.
Web-based health screening – an on-line/telephone based health screening service with 95 per cent of the results available within one working day emailed to the referrer – no more paper.
Absence support – proven systems from Day One reporting, ongoing back to work support from occupational health professionals to employees and employers and treatment and rehabilitation services. A completely integrated absence management system supporting managers to be responsible for reducing sickness absence. This aims to reduce days lost through sickness absence by 25 per cent.
Medical and counselling helplines for employees. 24/7 access 365 days per year from the UK’s longest standing helpline provided by a highly experienced nursing team.
Stress management support – stress awareness training for managers and pc based training for employees. Our on-line assessments tools identify at risk areas in organisations and assist in defining the most effective support mechanism.

Capita Health Solutions has expertise in providing Health Solutions across a wide range of sectors including: central government, financial services, legal services, city institutions, retail sector, uniformed services, chemical sector, logistical services and the energy sector.