Managing Absence and Attendance Managing Absence and Attendance
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AGENDA

Thursday, 27th September 2007

09:00
Registration and coffee

09:30
Chairman's Opening Remarks
 
Mike Goldsmith, Executive Chairman
Medigold
President
Commercial Occupational Health Providers Association

09:45
Absence management – what works, when and why
  • Can absence management be totally ‘outsourced’?
  • Why there is no one common solution for absence management.
  • Why some approaches work and others don’t.
  • How to decide where the best results can be achieved.
Nick Jones, Managing Director
Grosvenor Health
Vice Chairman
COHPA (Commercial Occupational Health Providers Association)

10:30
Preventing absence
  • Looking both proactively and reactively at absence 
  • Developing an absence management strategy to “fit your organisation”
  • Case studies including return on investment models
Mark Holt-Rogers, Director
Wellbeing4Business

11:15
Refreshments

11:30
Update on employment law
  • Managing absence incapacity
  • The Disability Discrimination Act 
  • Stress management and the law
Fraser Younson, Head of the Employment Incentives and Pensions Group
Berwin Leighton Paisner

12:15
Lunch and networking

13:30
CASE STUDY
Sickness Absence Management – Grasping The Nettle
  • Creating an attendance culture
  • Dispelling the myths
  • Giving power back to managers
Wendy Head, Acting Director People and Performance
Shepway District Council

14:15
Reducing Absence with Nurse Call-Centre and better MI
  • Why does it work?  Review of key processes
  • Lessons learned through 500,000 nurse interactions
  • How to use technology to drive compliance with HR policy
  • Where does this model work well
Ingolv Urnes, Chief Executive
Active Health Partners

15:00
Tea and Coffee

15:20
CASE STUDY
Managing attendance as part of a holistic approach to valuing health.
  • Promoting health and presence 
  • Training managers to manage attendance 
  • Occupational Health led case management.
Fiona Collin, Health Systems Manager
Proctor & Gamble Beauty Care

16:05
Chairman's closing remarks

16:30
Close of conference

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