Annual Report 2010 - Falck

22 Falck Annual Report 2010 | Management review
Healthcare
Falck Healthcare helps create healthy people
and healthy workplaces
• Provided access to health clinics for an additional 55,000
people in Denmark
• Signed a number of new contracts in Sweden
• Helped 60,000 people in six Danish municipalities return to
the labour market
• Continued its international expansion
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Healthcare continued its international expansion in 2010. Falck
operates 12 primary care centres in Poland whose general
practitioners and specialists handled a total of more than
50,000 clinical consultations during the year. A number of new
agreements were signed in Poland, including with two large
insurance companies. In Slovakia, Falck operates four healthcare
clinics and also bought LaSalus, a provider of healthcare schemes
to a number of companies. In India, Falck also established a
healthcare clinic in a luxury hotel.
An important part of Falck’s work in the Nordic region within
this business area is preventing illness and job strain. Another
part of this business area, just as important, is helping people
on sick leave return to work as early as possible.
There are four primary gains to be had from the preventive
approach: each individual worker has a better, longer and healthier
working life; job satisfaction is improved, and sick leave and
job strain costs are reduced; the public sector saves money on
sickness benefits, social assistance benefits and early pension
payments; and insurance companies save on compensation
paid for loss of earning capacity.
A key element of Falck’s efforts in this area is the interdisciplinary
teams that work together closely on each case. A person
on long-term sick leave may have a team comprising a doctor, a
nurse, a psychologist and a social worker. If physical treatment
is required, physiotherapists, chiropractors, massage therapists
and reflexologists can also work together to treat a client.
2010, 25,000 people received psychological assistance from Falck.