Data: 130,000 West Midlands workers off due to long-term illness

The West Midlands is among more than 200 areas across Britain helping design a new system aimed at keeping people with health conditions in work, as part of a drive to tackle the £212bn annual cost of long-term sickness to the UK economy.

Almost 130,000 people in the West Midlands are currently off work due to being long-term sick, part of a wider national picture where 2.8 million working-age people are economically inactive due to ill health or disability. The new "Workplace Health System" aims to bri... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...