New WHIPSA research funding
The £3.7m five-year programme, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, will begin in May 2026. It aims to investigate the effectiveness and implementation of ‘workplace health and wellbeing initiatives that are free at the point of use to workplaces’, known as WHISPAs. These are offered freely to employers and funded by local…
Event: Implementing effective workplace public health
Submit a course module here Click here to download the Course Content Template. Once completed, please send it to the team via whispa@contacts.bham.ac.uk. Slides
Webinar: Reflections on the development of the Healthy Workplace Standards
Q&A Q. In regard to the award do the employers have a responsibility to consider the standards in regard to staff being absent? A. Yes, there is an absence management standard. We ask that there is an absence policy, which includes absences beyond sickness, is written in a supportive tone, and includes back to work interviews…
Webinar: WHISPAs: past, present & future
Watch the video replay of WHISPAs: past, present & future that took place on Wednesday 28th February.
Prevention Research Outputs
The Prevention workplace project is funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Programme as part of the NIHR National Priority Area Research Programme 2020-23 via the ‘Prevention including Behavioural Risk Factors’ Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Consortium. The Consortium is led by NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria. This project is hosted…
WHISPA teaching materials – case study
Workplaces are important determinants of health and health inequalities. As a setting for the promotion of health, workplaces enable access to large and diverse groups of people who may not otherwise seek healthcare. However, it can be difficult to demonstrate the effectiveness of workplace health and wellbeing initiatives (WHIs) because they are complex multi-level and…