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Building the Future with Apprenticeships
Every year, National Apprenticeships Week (7-13 Feb 2022) provides a chance to celebrate apprenticeships and the value, benefits and opportunity that they offer.
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Introducing… Absentia Day One Absence Management Service
In the last of our videos looking at how businesses can deal with employee absence more effectively, April Cremins discusses Medigold Health’s approach to absence management and explains how the various features of our Day One Absence service, Absentia, make it easy for you to reduce overall absence levels and[...]
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The cornerstones of effective absence management
Are you looking to reduce the impact of employee absence on your business in 2022 but unsure where to start? In today’s video, part of our January Spotlight Series on our Day One Absence service, Absentia, our Absence Management Consultant April Cremins talks you step by step through the key[...]
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What is absence management all about?
What’s the biggest cause of sickness absence among UK workplaces? How do levels of sickness absence vary between different industry sectors? And why is managing employee absence so important? In this video, the first of three instalments produced as part of our January Spotlight Series on our Day One Absence[...]
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Giving youngsters a sporting chance!
Medigold Health have always been committed to investing in and making a positive impact on the communities in which we work and as part of this commitment, we regularly seek opportunities to sponsor local groups and social enterprises, particularly those that are close to the hearts of our colleagues or that aim[...]
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Drug and Alcohol Testing Mythbusters
‘Refusing to have an alcohol or drug test is treated the same as a positive test.’ ‘Passive cannabis inhalation can cause a positive drug test result’. There are many misconceptions around alcohol and drug testing, and over the years we’ve heard all sorts of myths, but which are based in[...]
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What makes a good alcohol and drug policy?
A robust Alcohol and Drug policy is the foundation of an effective workplace testing programme and crucial to helping you reduce the risks of substance misuse within your organisation. But what makes a good Alcohol and Drug policy? This time, Hampton Knight’s Client Services Director Michael Wakeham gives us the[...]
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Alcohol Awareness Week
Today marks the start of Alcohol Awareness Week (15-21 November), an annual campaign run by Alcohol Change UK that aims to get people ‘thinking about drinking’ and raise awareness of alcohol harm.
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The future is bright…Hampton Knight and Medigold Health
To round off our Spotlight Series feature charting Hampton Knight’s journey from small family business to becoming one of the UK’s most trusted workplace testing providers, we speak to the brand’s CEO Scot Smith (formerly COO of Medigold Health) about how he came to head up our alcohol and drug[...]
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