An ageing workforce and higher rates of illness and disease among employees will pose a serious threat to British business by 2030, a report warns.
Private healthcare company BUPA estimates the number of workers with chronic conditions will rise by at least 7% to more than four million.
Rates of mental illness and serious diseases, such as heart problems, will also soar.
BUPA warns the problem will damage all companies' long-term productivity.
BBC NEWS The report, published in partnership with The Work Foundation, The Oxford Health Alliance and RAND Europe, brings together more than 200 pieces of research to provide an insight into how the health of British workers will change over the next 20 years.
The study estimates that the average age of the workforce will reach 43, while 68 will become the average age of retirement by 2050.
The increasing age of the workforce will be one factor fuelling rates of ill health.
This followed a review by Dame Carol Black, in 2008, which found ill-health in the working-age population is already costing Britain over £100bn a year.
Early warning
Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald, of BUPA UK Health Insurance, said: "For the first time, we have a clear picture of the major health issues that will affect British workers over the next 20 years.
"Our report provides British businesses with an early warning of how the health needs of workers will change and, importantly, it gives them time to take action to keep their employees healthy, productive and at work.”
Take note of the last paragraph-“time to take action to keep their employees healthy, productive and at work.” What about the sick, the disabled and the mentally ill now:
And those that do not have jobs or cannot work, where will they be in 20 years time?
Still on the scrapheap probably.
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Private healthcare company BUPA estimates the number of workers with chronic conditions will rise by at least 7% to more than four million.
Rates of mental illness and serious diseases, such as heart problems, will also soar.
BUPA warns the problem will damage all companies' long-term productivity.
BBC NEWS The report, published in partnership with The Work Foundation, The Oxford Health Alliance and RAND Europe, brings together more than 200 pieces of research to provide an insight into how the health of British workers will change over the next 20 years.
The study estimates that the average age of the workforce will reach 43, while 68 will become the average age of retirement by 2050.
The increasing age of the workforce will be one factor fuelling rates of ill health.
This followed a review by Dame Carol Black, in 2008, which found ill-health in the working-age population is already costing Britain over £100bn a year.
Early warning
Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald, of BUPA UK Health Insurance, said: "For the first time, we have a clear picture of the major health issues that will affect British workers over the next 20 years.
"Our report provides British businesses with an early warning of how the health needs of workers will change and, importantly, it gives them time to take action to keep their employees healthy, productive and at work.”
Take note of the last paragraph-“time to take action to keep their employees healthy, productive and at work.” What about the sick, the disabled and the mentally ill now:
And those that do not have jobs or cannot work, where will they be in 20 years time?
Still on the scrapheap probably.
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." Margaret Fuller
Angus
Angus Dei on all and sundry
NHS Behind the headlines
Angus Dei politico
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