Health Checks on the Move: How The Guinness Partnership Engaged 1,367 Colleagues Across Eight Sites

The Guinness Partnership wanted preventative health checks to reach beyond its office-based workforce, particularly trades and property teams. By taking health checks across different locations and working environments, it engaged 1,367 colleagues, identified previously unknown health risks and gained a clearer picture of the health needs of its workforce.

For The Guinness Partnership, improving access to preventative health has been an evolving process. Over several years, SISU Health Stations were deployed across eight locations, moving between sites to give colleagues in different parts of the organisation an opportunity to take part.

The approach was particularly relevant for trades and property teams, whose working environments can make it harder to engage with traditional workplace wellbeing initiatives.

The resulting data revealed gaps in preventative health checks, highlighted potential health risks and provided insights that helped shape subsequent wellbeing activities, communications and investment decisions.

Between July 2018 and September 2025, the programme:

• Delivered 2,260 health checks
• Engaged 1,367 employees
• Triggered 511 GP calls to action for high blood pressure or high BMI

The challenge – Reaching trades colleagues whose working days don’t revolve around a desk

Supporting staff health and wellbeing was already a priority for The Guinness Partnership. The challenge was ensuring that opportunities to engage with preventative health were accessible to people across different roles and working environments.

For workers based in offices, workplace wellbeing communications and initiatives can be relatively straightforward to access. For other teams, engaging with the same activities can be more challenging.

As Sajjad Khan, Reward Advisor at The Guinness Partnership, explained:

We were particularly keen to engage our trades colleagues, as their roles are not desk-based.

Reaching these people meant considering not just which health services to offer, but how to make them accessible within the realities of their working day.

The programme also needed to provide more than an individual health check. The Guinness Partnership wanted to understand the health and wellbeing needs of its workforce and use those insights to inform its wider approach.

The solution – Making health checks accessible across eight locations

SISU Health Stations gave employees an easy way to check their health without having to arrange an appointment.

The range of health measurements provided by the machines has been particularly valuable.

Rather than keeping the stations in fixed locations, The Guinness Partnership moved them between sites, extending opportunities to participate across eight locations, including Bristol, Crewe, Oldham and London.

The organisation supported this approach with intranet promotion and targeted internal emails to raise awareness and encourage staff to take part.

The Guinness Partnership also used the stations to signpost users towards its Employee Assistance Programme and raise awareness of existing benefits and wellbeing resources.

The impact – 511 GP calls to action and previously unknown risks identified

Across the original programme, 1,367 people completed 2,260 health checks.

What the health checks revealed:

• 16.2% recorded high blood pressure
• 67.2% were overweight or obese
• 17.8% were smokers
• 47.8% (653 participants) had at least one risk factor across high blood pressure, obesity or smoking
• 27.7% of those with at least one risk factor had two or three
• 511 GP calls to action were triggered because of high blood pressure or high BMI

The Guinness Partnership is also aware of instances where colleagues identified previously unknown health risks and took appropriate action as a result.

One additional finding stood out: 71.4% of participants had not had their blood pressure checked in the previous 12 months.

This gave The Guinness Partnership a tangible finding to use in its wider health and wellbeing communications.

We highlighted this finding at our company roadshow to reinforce the importance of preventative health checks and to help inform our future approach.

Repeat checks also showed changes over time. Among repeat users:

• 36.2% saw a reduction in high blood pressure
• 23.5% saw a reduction in smoking
• 7.2% saw a reduction in high body fat

Strategic value – Using 2,260 health checks to better inform wellbeing decisions

The value of the programme extended beyond the individual health checks. Over several years, the reporting helped inform The Guinness Partnership’s thinking about wider workforce wellbeing.

As Sajjad explained:

The longer-term data helped us develop a clearer understanding of our workforce’s health and wellbeing needs.

 

The insights informed our subsequent wellbeing activities, communications and investment decisions.

Worker demand brings SISU Health back to The Guinness Partnership

After the original programme ended in September 2025, The Guinness Partnership returned to SISU Health in 2026.

The positive feedback from the previous programme supported our decision to return to SISU Health.

 

We listened to colleague feedback and increased the number of machines available this year in response to demand from additional locations.

 

More Health Stations, including SISU Minis, have been added, with a focus on extending access, strengthening promotion and creating more opportunities for people to participate.

The ambition is clear:

We aim to achieve higher levels of participation across the new locations. Success would be demonstrated by sustained colleague engagement with the programme.

Make preventative health accessible to more of your workforce

The Guinness Partnership’s experience demonstrates how taking health checks into different working environments can help engage people beyond the office, identify potential health risks and generate insights to inform wider wellbeing decisions.

If you’re looking to reach more of your workforce with preventative health support and turn participation into actionable insight, talk to our team about how SISU Health can help.

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