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Workforce Health Screening
Employee health screening, built on blood testing. Your people get a clear picture of their physical health. You get anonymised workforce trends, and the chance to act before a quiet problem becomes a long absence.
Read the evidence guide
Hull, UKSickness absence is costing UK businesses more than ever.
Most of it is physical. Very little of it is being screened for.
Working days lost · 2024
Working days lost to illness across the UK workforce in 2024 — up 7% on the pre-pandemic baseline.
The total remains well above pre-pandemic levels, placing mounting pressure on productivity, team morale, and operational continuity. Proactive employee health screening gives businesses the insight to act before absence becomes a problem.
UK working days lost to illness (millions)
ONS · 2019 – 2024
Source: ONS Sickness Absence in the UK Labour Market 2023–2024, June 2025. 2021 figures reflect furlough scheme distortions.
Absence is rising, and the causes are largely physical.
Average employee absence reached 9.4 days per year in 2025, up from 7.8 days in 2023 and 5.8 days in 2022, equivalent to 4.1% of all working time. The CIPD attributes the rise in part to an ageing workforce and a growing burden of long-term health conditions (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2025). Minor illness is by far the most common cause of short-term absence, named in the top three causes by 78% of employers.
These are physical conditions with physical markers, and most of them develop quietly for years before anyone books an appointment. When people can see what is happening inside their bodies, they can act early, while acting is still cheap and simple.
The signal in the noise
Average employee absence per year in 2025, a record high, up from 7.8 days in 2023 (CIPD, 2025).
Employers naming minor illness among their top three causes of short-term absence (CIPD, 2025).
Organisations offering health screening to all employees rather than by seniority (CIPD, 2025).
Working age adults with type 2 diabetes who do not know they have it (ONS, 2024).
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Organisations across Hull and the UK who choose The Livewell Syndicate for workforce health screening.
Occupational health is nearly universal.Preventative screening is not.
69% of UK organisations provide occupational health services, rising to 86% among those with 250 or more employees. But only 31% use those services to manage health risks, and only 29% to shape a wellbeing strategy. Occupational health is mostly being used reactively, after someone is already absent (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2025).
The cost
The annual cost to UK employers of poor workplace health (Mayfield, 2025).
The absence
Working days lost to sickness or injury in 2025, an average of 4.4 days per worker (Office for National Statistics, 2026).
The gap
Share of employees aware of the health support their employer already provides (RAND Europe, 2019).
The blind spot
Share of people with inherited high cholesterol who remain undiagnosed, a condition found by a routine blood test (Durand et al., 2024).
31%. The gap between having occupational health and using it to find problems early (CIPD, 2025).
The fix is not a bigger budget. It is measurement. You cannot manage a physical health risk you have never looked for, and a benefit nobody uses is not a benefit.
Book a callPoor workforce health costs UK employers around £85 billion a year (Mayfield, 2025). Fixing it does not require a costly overhaul. It requires knowing what is actually wrong, in time to do something about it.
A blood screen is different from most wellbeing benefits in one practical respect: it produces a result. Every participant receives a personalised report on their own physical health markers, written in plain English, and you receive an anonymised view of the health risks across your workforce. Nobody has to remember to open an app.
Cost-effectiveness and ease of access are the two factors UK employers weigh most heavily when choosing a health benefit (CIPD, 2025). Screening is designed around both: a fixed fee per employee, no ongoing licence, and collection on site, in our Hull clinic, or by post.
Book a call with our team.
Thirty minutes. We will listen, scope the right screening programme, and follow up with a written proposal. Fixed fee, written proposal, no obligation.
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Unit L3, Base Business Space, Chamberlain Road, Hull, HU8 8HL