UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’

Exclusive: Royal Society of Public Health says fundamental shift' needed in how firms help those with health conditions

An extra 600,000 people will leave the British workforce in the next decade due to long-term health conditions unless ministers usher in a fundamental shift" in how employers help maintain staff wellbeing, a report has warned.

More than 3.3 million adults are expected to become economically inactive by 2035, according to analysis by the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), costing the UK 36bn a year.