If you are a business owner, HR manager or you manage a team, you鈥檝e probably given some thought to how you can make sure your employees health and wellbeing can be improved.
For some businesses though, employee health is fundamental to being able to supply services into certain industries. With customer demand for health and safety growing, it is now essential that employees have fast, reliable access to statutory medical appointments when they need them.
Finding occupational health services that not only prioritise your team鈥檚 health, but can also help make sure your company stays on top of health and safety laws, is a valuable addition to any business.
These services can be difficult to find in your local area, and demand for safety critical medicals is currently causing supply issues to employees receiving their mandatory tests in a timely manner, which is why make sure that anyone can have access to occupational health services that include online GP appointments, physiotherapy, and counselling, whenever they need them.
Innovative wellbeing platform
Latus Health was founded by former Hull Kingston Rovers rugby players Jack and Sam Latus, along with their brother Will in 2017, with a mission to create a revolutionary wellbeing provision that could be accessed by anyone anywhere in the world.
CEO Jack Latus said: 鈥淲e founded Latus Health to try to change the employer mindset towards health at work, to say how can we improve employee health at work, not merely preserve it.鈥
Innovation is at the core of Latus Health, and they wanted to make sure the services they offered were at the forefront of the industry. Jack said: 鈥淲e are probably best known for being a disruptor brand in the occupational health sector, but if you were to ask our customers what sets us apart from other providers they would say it's our responsiveness and our partnership approach to being a service provider that makes the difference.鈥
This commitment to offering easily accessible digital services has helped their customers access their healthcare and wellbeing services quickly and easily thanks to the development of their connected health platform, YODHA - Your On Demand Healthcare Anywhere.
YODHA was launched in January 2022, and offers an integrated healthcare and wellbeing support service for their customer鈥檚 employees. Users can access the platform anywhere at any time, and use it to get access to a whole range of healthcare services, including on demand safety critical medicals and other mandatory health surveillance appointments.
Increasing the availability of occupational health services
Latus Health is continuing to drive innovation through its digital strategy in occupational health, aiming to solve two key problems in the industry; fair access to occupational health services and to do it in a way which is environmentally friendly.
Jack said: 鈥淥ur digital strategy was based on reducing the environmental impact of occupational health provision, whilst simultaneously improving access to mandatory appointments. We realised that most occupational health services were hugely inefficient and there was just too much driving involved in traditional delivery models, so we took the decision to invest heavily in developing the ability to deliver all of our services digitally. That meant developing both the hardware and the software to be able to deliver on our vision for a truly tech-enabled occupational health programme.鈥
There鈥檚 a wide range of services available to customers, including monitoring the health of employees and carrying out ongoing health checks, mental health support, physiotherapy, GP appointments and management referrals.
Employers can also ensure their employees are fit to work and have all the relevant medical assessments done for their industry with Latus Health鈥檚 safety critical and fit for work medicals. Customers can also benefit from their courses and qualifications for workplace training in first aid, mental health first aid and manual handling.
Putting their customers first
It鈥檚 clear that Latus Health are fully focussed on providing the best customer service they can, and according to Jack they are obsessive about keeping customers at the centre of their decisions - they want to ensure everyone who uses their services can do so whenever they need them.
Jack said: 鈥淭his approach has made us a partner that our customers can rely on. And made us a mission critical supplier, which is exactly where we want to be positioned.
鈥淩esponsiveness and speed of service delivery, without a compromise for quality, is key to our customers. Especially when they are relying on us to make sure that they stay compliant with health and safety law, or when they need medicals done at short notice to allow key employees to fulfil a job or role.
鈥淔or example, if your employees cannot start a job on a construction site prior to getting cleared as medically fit to work, then speed becomes of the essence to your business success.鈥
If your business would like to partner with Latus Health, or you鈥檇 like to find out more information about the services they offer, .
