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| Offer tax breaks to firms that incentivise employee health How1 #373021 Offer tax breaks to employers who provide effective NICE-certified workplace health programmes for employees. | |
+Citations (1) - CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] Get serious about obesity or bankrupt the NHS - Simon Stevens
Author: Simon Stevens - NHS England
Publication info: 2014 September, 17
Cited by: David Price 11:34 PM 13 January 2015 GMT
Citerank: (5) 348767A potentially unsustainable financial burden on the health systemThe range of obesity's impacts makes accurate economic analysis challenging; however, a November 2014 study from the McKinsey Global Institute placed the annual economic impact on the UK at around $73bn (£46bn). Earlier analysis and modelling for the 2007 Foresight Report suggested a cost to the NHS of around £4.2bn annually to treat people with health problems related to elevated BMI and a total wider cost to the economy of around £15.8bn (rising to £27bn by 2015 and £49.9bn by 2050).57DE7179, 371552Financial cost of obesity grows as the prevalence of obesity risesThe cost of treating the health consequences of obesity, and productivity losses due to obesity, increase as the prevalence of obesity spreads in the population.1198CE71, 399820Offer tax breaks to firms that incentivise employee healthOffer tax breaks to employers who provide effective NICE-certified workplace health programmes for employees.565CA4D9, 399973A potentially unsustainable financial burden on the health systemThe range of obesity's impacts makes accurate economic analysis challenging; however, a November 2014 study from the McKinsey Global Institute placed the annual economic impact on the UK at around $73bn (£46bn). Earlier analysis and modelling for the 2007 Foresight Report suggested a cost to the NHS of around £4.2bn annually to treat people with health problems related to elevated BMI and a total wider cost to the economy of around £15.8bn (rising to £27bn by 2015 and £49.9bn by 2050).57DE7179, 399982Financial cost of obesity grows as the prevalence of obesity risesThe cost of treating the health consequences of obesity, and productivity losses due to obesity, increase as the prevalence of obesity spreads in the population.1198CE71
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| | Excerpt / Summary ...financial incentives should be offered to employers in England who provide effective NICE-certified workplace health programmes for employees. Stevens will argue that one of the benefits of a tax-funded NHS is that UK employers are not on the hook for health care costs, but that should not mean that the workplace is neglected as a setting for more concerted health action. Sickness absence-related costs to employers and taxpayers have been estimated at £22 billion a year, and over 300,000 people each year fall out of work and onto health-related benefits. |
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