The Hidden Health Crisis: How Technology Can Help Prevent Sickness and Chronic Disease at Work

Sickness absence in the UK is at its highest level in over 15 years. Chronic diseases such as bowel cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity increasingly affect people of working age, driving up absence and leaving employers counting the cost. Yet many of these conditions link to everyday habits that busy working life makes harder to maintain. This session explores the evidence behind the rise in chronic disease among working-age people, and why traditional wellbeing approaches often fail to reach those most at risk. Drawing on research and real experience delivering workplace sessions, it offers practical, realistic strategies organisations can use to support healthier habits around the demands of work, including how innovative health technology can make prevention part of everyday working life.

Delegates will:

• Understand why sickness absence is at a 15-year high, the key chronic disease risks facing today’s workforce, and the evidence behind them
• Learn why busy working life makes prevention so difficult, and why traditional wellbeing approaches often miss those most at risk
• Discover how innovative health technology offers a low-cost way to embed disease prevention in the workplace, protect the health of their people and tackle absence at its root