Workplace health

Recognised as a trusted pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer, taking measures to improve the health and wellbeing of our people underpins who we are as a business.

We have created the Boots healthy workplace team to drive the agenda, engage the leaders of the business and report progress.

The Team's remit is:

• To raise the profile of healthy workplace activity, and embed it into the Boots culture.
• To consult with our people to find out what is important to them.
• To deliver a programme that is available to all employees in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
• To offer a programme that empowers our people to improve their health and wellbeing.

Key successes have been:

• Participation from wide ranging parts of Boots - Human Resources, Policy, Safety, Occupational Health, Marketing and Healthcare.
• Creation of a healthy workplace brand – My Health
• Real and ongoing consultation with our people.
• Integration of workplace health activity with the company's marketing campaigns for customers.
• ‘Change one Thing’ campaign People Packs. These contain health information, free engagement tools such as a pedometer, healthy fruit snack and details of how to sign up to a people programme for extra support on getting fit or giving up smoking.
• A range of Healthy Living events.
• Confirmation from our people that the areas they wanted support with are: exercise, healthy eating/weight loss, stopping smoking and work/life balance.
• Winning a Government Health and Wellbeing Award for our activities.
• Active participation in Business in the Community ‘Business Action on Health’ Campaign.