11th October 2011 East Sussex County Council recieve a 29% ROI from using FirstCare

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To do this ESCC employed the FirstDay absence management service from FirstCare to help tackle its £7.5m a year absence problem. As a public sector organisation, ESCC wished to act on the Government’s aim to reduce sickness absence and improve efficiency in local government. FirstDay has resulted in vast improvements in efficiency and staff productivity [...]

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FirstCare reduce absence at CNWL by 26%

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The College of North West London was already convinced of the case for an efficient absence management service, but had found shortcomings in its system, prompting it to replace the incumbent provider and appoint FirstCare instead. Under the previous system, although keen to reduce both long and short term absence, the College was not able [...]

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FirstCare reduces absence at Nuffield Orthopaedic Trust by 35%

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Incomplete data was not only a huge problem for Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in combating staff absence, it also made it almost impossible to see where there might be areas for improvement. Until, that is, it outsourced its absence management function to FirstCare. On 1 February 2007, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust handed sickness [...]

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03rd September 2011 FirstCare in the Top 10 for Fastest-Growing Companies in London

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The London Top 20 Fastest-Growing Companies London Loves Business | 2 September 2011 | By Sophie Hobson, Gabriella Griffith In the face of economic turmoil, these 20 London companies have excelled. Company Name CAGR (%) Turnover Year 1 Turnover Year 3 Profit MJ Media 165.5 £1,903,000 £13,412,000 £105,000 Prizeflex 125.5 £6,168,000 £31,462,000 £368,000 Montanaro Asset Management [...]

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18th July 2011 FirstCare’s response to the PwC poll suggesting that 1 in 3 workers admit to lying about their absence

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Aaron Ross, CEO of FirstCare finds the PwC poll suggesting that 1 in 3 workers admit to lying about their absence alarming, worrying and misleading.

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20th May 2011 International Nurses Day

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The FirstCare service is nothing without the excellent work of our nurses. Amongst all the coughs, colds and headaches it is occasionally easy to forget that over the years the FirstCare Nurses have truly saved lives. From employees that didn’t realise they were suffering from heart attacks or strokes, through to brain tumours, the FirstCare [...]

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18th May 2011 The 7th FirstCare User Group Meeting

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The 7th FirstCare User Group meeting was a fantastic success, with representatives present from both our private and public sector clients. As we have grown so have our clients and their needs, and this meeting was an ideal opportunity to gather useful data to help plan our development roadmap and shape absence management in the [...]

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01st May 2011 Welcome to the FirstCare Blog

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Before we get started let us tell you a little bit about ourselves. About FirstCare FirstCare is the UK’s largest absence management specialist, who is also pioneering a new day one approach to Occupational Health, covering more than 110,000 employees in a wide range of large public and private sector organisations, including NHS Trusts, local [...]

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