In the wake of last month's
Comprehensive Spending Review, public sector employers have been urged to invest in health and well-being as a way to save money in other areas of their businesses.
With the public sector bearing much of the brunt of Chancellor George Osborne's spending constraints, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) has said that public sector employers can save millions of pounds each year through health and wellbeing initiatives for their staff.
Its report,
Sickness Costs, argues that organisations that provide workplace benefits such as physiotherapy services make significant savings through higher productivity and fewer absences caused by musculoskeletal disorders.
The research also found that three public sector managers in 10 believed that staff who called in sick with a recurring condition were well enough to work but did not want to.
Personnel Today, 2010
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