KEEPING
PEOPLE
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Your company doctor.
Big organisations have their own occupational health doctors. Now smaller businesses can too.
Worklife Medical gives your business a dedicated Occupational Health Physician, a doctor who gets to know your organisation, understands your workplace and is there when health and work become difficult.
The same doctor. Direct access. Independent medical advice.
Without the cost of employing your own occupational physician.
Not transactional occupational health.
When you have a workplace health problem, you shouldn't have to start again with someone new every time.
With Worklife Medical, your business has a dedicated company doctor.
You speak directly to your doctor when you need occupational medical advice. If an employee needs an assessment, your doctor sees them. If they need reviewing later, they come back to the same doctor.
Over time, your company doctor gets to know your organisation, the work your people do and the health challenges your business faces.
One company. One doctor. Genuine continuity.
What does a company doctor do?
Your company doctor advises on the relationship between health and work.
Sickness and work
Understand how illness is affecting an employee's ability to work, what might help them return and how a safe and sustainable return can be supported.
Keeping people in work
Early medical advice can help employers understand a problem before absence becomes prolonged and identify practical ways of helping people remain in work where appropriate.
Fitness for work
Independent medical advice about whether someone is fit for their role, any relevant restrictions and whether workplace adjustments could help.
Health risks at work
Medical advice when work itself could be affecting health, or where a health condition could create additional risks in the workplace.
Your company doctor isn't your employees' GP
The two roles are deliberately separate.
An employee's GP provides their personal medical care. Your company doctor is an Occupational Health Physician whose role is to provide independent and impartial medical advice about health and work.
Keeping primary care and occupational medicine separate helps preserve that independence.
Your company doctor can work alongside GPs and treating specialists where appropriate, translating medical information into practical advice about fitness for work, sickness absence, workplace adjustments and occupational health risks.
Your business gets a company doctor
You have a named Occupational Health Physician rather than simply access to an occupational health service.
Talk directly to your doctor
When a health and work issue arises, you can discuss what is happening and decide what medical input, if any, is actually needed.
Your doctor sees your employee
Where an assessment is appropriate, it is undertaken by the same physician advising your business.
You receive independent medical advice
Clear, practical recommendations about health, function and work.
The relationship continues
If circumstances change or the employee needs reviewing, you return to a doctor who already understands the situation.
How it works
A doctor who knows your business
Large organisations can employ occupational physicians who understand their workforce and advise management when difficult health issues arise.
For most smaller businesses, employing a doctor isn't realistic.
Worklife Medical gives you that relationship without putting a doctor on your payroll.
Your company doctor gets to know:
Your business: How your organisation works and the challenges you face.
Your workplace: The jobs people actually do and the demands those jobs place on them.
Your people: Continuity means previous assessments and advice aren't viewed in isolation.
Your health risks: Over time, your doctor can recognise recurring workplace health issues and advise you when something deserves attention.
Your business might not need an occupational health department. But it can have a company doctor.
Dr Rich Dufton
Occupational Health Physician & Founder of Worklife Medical
Rich has spent much of his career working where medicine meets the workplace.
As a former Army Medical Officer, he advised commanders on the health and fitness of the people under their command — translating medical problems into practical advice about what someone could safely do and what support they might need.
Later, as a GP Partner and business owner, he experienced occupational health from the other side. He received OH reports himself and saw first-hand the difference between recommendations that sound reasonable on paper and adjustments that are genuinely useful and workable in a real business.
Those experiences shaped Worklife Medical.
Rich believes good occupational medicine should be personal, practical and built on relationships. He wants to understand the businesses he advises — what they do, how they work and the challenges their people face — rather than treating every referral as an isolated transaction.
That's why he founded Worklife Medical: to give smaller businesses the kind of relationship with an Occupational Health Physician that larger organisations have traditionally had with their own company doctor.
