• Employers can achieve significant cost savings if they can reduce their absence by improving employee health and wellbeing at work
  • Over 2.5 million people in the UK visit their GP with back pain each year.
  • The 30 million working days lost in the UK due to occupational illness cost the economy £30 billion, approximately 3% of the GDP - Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP 2008
  • At anyone time, 33 per cent of the UK population are suffering with back pain.
  • 9% of annual pay bills are spent on managing the direct and indirect consequences of sickness absence – The Work Foundation 2010
  • Up to 80 per cent of the adult population will suffer significant back pain at some time in their life.
  • 1/3 of time taken off work in Great Britain is because of musculoskeletal disorders – Health and Safety Executive 2008/09