The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have released new quality standards providing advice for employers to help improve staff mental and physical health and wellbeing.
Recommendations and rationale from the standards included;
Make health and wellbeing an organisational priority:
Giving a senior manager responsibility for health and wellbeing shows your organisation’s commitment to a healthy working environment. The named manager can then lead on healthy work initiatives and provide line managers and staff with support to improve working conditions. This can benefit both your organisation and your employees by increasing productivity, lowering staff sickness levels and improving job satisfaction and staff retention rates.
Make health and wellbeing a central part of line management roles:
This can help ensure your employees feel valued, content and able to discuss any concerns before they reach a crisis point. This can also improve productivity.
Ensure employees are involved in decision making:
Empowering your employees to be involved in organisational decisions and practices that have a direct impact on them shows that your organisation cares and values their opinions. It can also lead to improved working practices and, in turn, improved job satisfaction, resulting in a more content and healthy workforce as well as higher levels of commitment and productivity.
Read the full NICE Healthy Workplaces Guidelines: Improving employee mental and physical health and wellbeing
We had a fantastic two days at the 
It was great to chat to so many of you over at our stand where we were giving taster Workplace Stretch Sessions throughout the show.
About the office* show
The UK’s largest event for PAs, EAs, VAs & Office Managers. Our founder will be chairing a Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace panel discussion in the keynote theatre on day one. You can also join our Workplace Stretch classes in the Chillout Zone on both days of the show.
This interactive discussion will give you practical tips, advice and ideas for championing health & wellbeing initiatives in your own organisations and for yourself.
Join our leading Pilates and Yoga instructors for our taster Workplace Stretch session. Recharge, stretch and strengthen your body and mind ready for your day at the office* or just take some well deserved time out. No fitness gear required and mats provided. Places are limited, so first come first stretched!
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