On-site health services

Doctors and nurses

Employees will be able to use the service for routine medical requirements, or just occasionally for advice. The service can provide:

• appointments of 15 minutes or longer
• prescriptions
• repeat prescriptions
• private consultant referrals
• second opinions
• vaccinations
• travel advice
• dietary advice
• contraceptive advice

While respecting patient confidentiality, medical staff will liaise closely with your occupational health or human resources teams with the aim of ensuring your needs are understood and met. It is also important to maintain continuity with the care provided by your employees’ own GPs. With their permission we will write to the GP giving details of the consultation.

An on-site nurse, who is able to deliver services such as vaccinations and contraceptive advice, can support the doctor. Your organisation then benefits from a more focused mode of delivery, freeing up the doctor’s time for more one-on-one consultations.

Physiotherapists

Our on-site physiotherapy service provides speedy diagnosis and treatment to your staff. Rapid referral to more specialist treatment leads to quicker rehabilitation, less time off work, and fewer ill-health retirements.

Our physiotherapists can work with your occupational health team to identify workplace problems and provide advice at a corporate level on how to minimise and avoid absences caused by musculoskeletal illness.

This could involve giving display screen workstation advice, fast-tracking problem cases, advising on changes of duties or the purchase of ergonomically correct furniture.

Working together in this way, the team can record and track individual treatments and interventions. The resulting management information can be used to monitor workplace exposure to musculoskeletal risk and its relationship with medical insurance underwriting costs.

Dentists

Dental problems can lead to frequent periods away from work. Regular check-ups by an on-site dentist can prevent problems and radically reduce the need to take time off.

Bupa Wellness is the UK ’s leading provider of on-site dental services - offering high standards of clinical expertise through our fully accredited dentists, specialists and hygienists - and our state-of-the-art transportable dental surgery.

On-site dentist services can provide:

• Bupa Oral Health Assessment - thorough examination to identify existing or potential problems
• traditional care - from the smallest filling to solving complex problems
• specialist treatment - endodontists (root treatment), periodontists (gums), oral surgeons and implant specialists
• hygiene - scaling, cleaning, and advice about looking after teeth and gums
• cosmetic dentistry - including teeth whitening and tooth-coloured restorations

You can choose how the service is delivered.

• "The Dental Box" - a fully transportable, rapidly assembled and comprehensive dental surgery offered exclusively by Bupa Wellness. Normally, we can turn a meeting room into a dental surgery and back again within a couple of hours. An ideal solution to assess an on-site service with minimal start-up costs.
• Fixed on-site surgeries - where you already have facilities for on-site medical care, we can set up and operate a fixed surgery in which dentists and specialists can all operate.
• "Employed" dentist - as organisations are not able to retain their own dentists, we can employ a dentist on your behalf, allowing you to offer dentistry to your staff at subsidised rates.