It’s time for our annual Health and Wellbeing event, and once more we aim to provide just the right balance between education and entertainment. This year’s theme is “Mind your business”, and yet again we will provide some of the very best speakers to help you do just that, as they guide you through important employment issues including:

• Employment Law update, including a focus on health related legal issues
• The future of UK Corporate Healthcare Policies, and what this means to employers
• Updates on recent employment reviews, including employee Minimum Income Standards, Employee Engagement levels, The Sickness Absence Review & Well-being index

And we are also fortunate to have award winning comedian Paul Sinha to round off the agenda. Paul appears regularly on radio comedies as diverse as Fighting Talk, The Now Show, and The News Quiz, as well as a regular slot on ITV’s daily quiz show The Chase as a resident expert. He is also a fully qualified Doctor of Medicine, so is well placed to deliver a humorous look at the role that medicine and wellbeing play in all our lives.

Our superb venue for the event in London’s world renowned British Museum. Admired around the world for its unique collection of artefacts, delegates will have the chance to peruse the galleries and view items as varied as Egyptian Mummies, The Elgin Marbles, and The Rosetta Stone. Only a few minutes’ walk from tube and bus links this is a truly A-list venue for this event.

Seminar details

Date: Tuesday 23^rd October 2012

Timings: A choice of:

Morning Event (09:40 to 12:15) OR Afternoon Event (14:00 to 16:35)

Location: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

Suitable for: Senior Human Resources and Finance Professionals

CPD: The seminar will qualify for 2 hours CPD

Cost: FREE! (refreshments, post event drinks & museum access are all included)

Given our speakers, agenda, and superb venue, not to mention the hugely positive feedback from all our recent events, demand is again likely to be extremely high. Places will be allocated on a strictly first come, first served basis, and early reservation is strongly recommended. Details of how to book, and our usual terms and conditions, are shown at the end of this post.

Full Agenda:

Registration, coffee and networking

Welcome

Employment Law: ‘Employment health questions: A lost treasure?’’

The Equality Act places what almost amounts to a ban on pre-employment health questions to candidates, yet many employers have yet to get to grips with this important legislation. In addition, employers are also faced with the dual challenges of managing sickness absence, and the management of disability in the workplace.

Tim will seek to outline how employers can comply with their legal and contractual obligations in the above areas. An informative and necessary session for delegates, delivered in his usual relaxed and humorous style.

Speaker: Tim Randles, Associate, Penningtons Solicitors LLP

Employee Benefits: ’A collection of oddities’

Recent years have seen a number of concepts consolidated into official reports. Some of the more interesting documents include the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Minimum Income Standards, Employee Engagement levels, Happiness Indexes, and The Sickness Absence Review.

Steve will seek to sift through the pages of these reports to isolate which items may have implications for UK employers, and indeed employee benefit provision.

Speaker: Steve Herbert, Head of Benefits Strategy, Jelf Employee Benefits

Break/ Refreshments/ Networking

Healthcare: ‘The best thing about the future is it comes one day at a time’

Julian will outline the likely causes and effects of the Office of Fair Trading and subsequent Competition Commission investigation into the commercial practices of consultants & private hospitals, and the steps that employers can put in place to maximise the value of their existing and future Corporate Healthcare planning

Julian is the outspoken CEO of WPA, and is sure to be both an interesting, challenging and engaging addition to the day’s agenda.

Speaker: Julian Stainton, Chief Executive, WPA

Jelf Employee Benefits: An update

Interactive delegate voting

Comedy: ‘The Sinha Gallery’

Award winning comedian, and star of radio and TV, Paul Sinha rounds off our event with 30 minutes of his own witty and intelligent humour.

Paul is also a Doctor of Medicine, and is therefore ideally placed to find the humour in health and wellbeing. This session is sure to delight the audience.

Speaker: Paul Sinha MD

Closing comments, Seminar concludes

Drinks and networking/ Optional access to Museum Galleries

So how do I book a place?

If you (and/or an appropriate colleague) would like to attend, please emails me ( steve.herbert@jelfgroup.com ) with the following details for each delegate:

• Full Name
• Job Title
• Company Name
• Email Address
• Phone Number (preferably direct dial)
• Confirmation of which session you wish to attend (morning or afternoon)
• Please add ‘London Event’ to the subject line of your email

All bookings are subject to our usual terms and conditions that can be viewed here:

https://www.jelfgroup.com/blog/2011/03/revised-seminar-and-workshop-acceptance-terms/

I hope you can join us for what should be a really interesting, and entertaining, event in a truly unique venue.

Best regards

Steve