About this event

What are the economic benefits of ensuring the health and wellbeing of the workforce in Wales? What interventions are effective and cost-effective in relation to workplace health?  And what support do smaller employers need to implement wellbeing interventions and approaches?

Chaired by Mary-Ann McKibben, Consultant-lead for Healthy Working Wales (Public Health Wales), this webinar will hear from academics who have undertaken research and evaluation to understand what works in relation to workplace health approaches.

Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, lead author of the ‘Wellness in Work’ economic evidence review (Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre/ Bangor University), will provide insights into the findings and discuss the types of interventions likely to be most cost-effective in improving wellbeing at work.

Nigel Lloyd (NIHR-funded PHIRST Connect team based at the University of Hertfordshire) will outline the findings of an evaluation of workplace health and wellbeing support in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Walsall, in particular focusing on the main barriers identified to SME engagement and action and how they might be addressed.

Learning outcomes:

• To understand the links between health and work and the role of Healthy Working Wales.
• To learn about the economic benefits of keeping the workforce in good physical and emotional health, and the most effective and cost-effective interventions in improving wellbeing at work.
• To learn about the barriers and enablers for small and medium sized enterprises in taking action on health and wellbeing.
• To understand how to use insights and evidence of effectiveness to help shape public health action on health and work.

Chair
Mary-Ann McKibben, Consultant in Public Health and lead for Healthy Working Wales, Public Health Wales

Speakers
Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, lead author of the ‘Wellness in Work’ economic evidence review, Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre / Bangor University
Nigel Lloyd, Senior Research Fellow, NIHR-funded PHIRST, University of Hertfordshire