6 April 2022

The Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service retains accreditation with SEQOHS (Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Services).

SEQOHS, or Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service, is a set of standards and a process of accreditation that aims to help to raise the overall standard of care provided by occupational health services. This helps to make a meaningful difference to the health of people of working age.

SEQOHS aims to:

  • enable services to identify the standards of practice to which they should aspire 
  • credit good work being done by high quality occupational health services, providing independent validation that they satisfy standards of quality 
  • raise standards where they need to be raised 
  • help purchasers differentiate occupational health services that attain the desired standards from those that do not

The SEQOHS Accreditation Scheme is run by the Royal College of Physicians of London, on behalf of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

Evidence requirements

The core SEQOHS requirements for OH services are grouped into six domains. All standards must be supported by evidence to demonstrate compliance

with the standard, and contextualized by adding an informative comment against each standard.

SEQOHS Standards, six Domains:

A – Business Probity

B – Information Governance

C – People

D – Facilities & Equipment

E – Relationships with Purchaser

F – Relationships with workers

Following the assessment, the SEQOHS assessor has provided the feedback listed below:

"Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust's Occupational Health Service have continued to maintain the standards to meet the SEQOHS annual re-accreditation requirements. The Service have provided a good range of detailed audit results and maintain an appropriate array of regularly reviewed clinical policies, procedures and protocols. The Service is encouraged to maintain their standards over the coming year, including completing the outstanding actions following the Trust`s recent acquisition of a neighbouring NHS hospital."

I would like to congratulate your service for its continued commitment to maintaining SEQOHS standards.

Cheryl Barber Head of Occupational Health Business & Governance, Andrea Snagg Assistant Director of the Service & Zoe Sarangi Head of OH Operations would like to thank everyone in the team for the fantastic contribution to the assessment and would like to thank them all for their continued hard work and commitment during very challenging times during Covid.  We would also like to thank everyone who has supported the service through mutual aid requests over the last few months.

Well done team.

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