Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of health and wellbeing services (HWS) delivered by large enterprise organisations (LEOs) to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within their supply chain on employees’ work engagement, compared to usual HWS; and to explore SME decision makers’ willingness and capacity to purchase different types of HWS from their LEO.

 What the research will involve:

The project comprises five structured work packages (WPs)

Work Package 1: Intervention co-design and preparation for the HWS intervention

Work Package 2: Implementation of the HWS intervention in SMEs within supply chain

Work Package 3: Quantitative evaluation and social return on investment analysis

Work Package 4: Process evaluation and feedback

Work Package 5: Discrete choice experiment

What has the study found so far? Project started Dec 2024

Study Team: Prof Jo Yarker, Prof Ira Madan, Dr Vaughan Parsons and other external research partners

Further information: Vaughan.parsons@gstt.nhs.uk

Funders: National Institute of Health and Care Research

Publications – pending