148.8 million
working days lost to sickness or injury in the UK, 9.4 days for every employee, up from 5.8 days in 2022.
Office for National Statistics, sickness absence in the UK labour market, 2025 release£150 billion
a year is what ill health costs the UK economy.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development£120
is what one day of sickness absence costs an employer.
Keep Britain Working review, 2025The trial evidence for workplace wellness programmes is weak. Song and Baicker randomised 160 worksites and published the result in JAMA in 2019. After eighteen months the programme had improved self reported habits and made no significant difference to clinical measures, healthcare spending or absence.
We sell a doctor the same day. A 2024 systematic review in the American Journal of Medicine found that concierge and direct primary care models were associated with fewer emergency visits and hospital admissions and higher patient satisfaction.
- Song Z, Baicker K. Effect of a workplace wellness program on employee health and economic outcomes. JAMA, 2019
- Systematic review of concierge and direct primary care. American Journal of Medicine, 2024