Steve Boorman
Steve was appointed to lead the review of NHS workforce health and wellbeing in January 2009, this independent review published interim findings in August and reported its final conclusions in November, which were rapidly accepted by the Secretary of State for Health.
Steve is an experienced consultant in occupational health. He manages a small team of specialists whose, remit includes developing policy and approaches across areas of health, safety and environment within one of the UK’s largest businesses, Royal Mail.
Steve has worked in Royal Mail for nineteen years, initially within one of its regional Occupational Health teams and then leading its Occupational health and welfare team up to its outsourcing in 2002. As Chief Medical Adviser he has had responsibility for developing occupational health approaches across a diverse, widespread and complex business, which has included working actively on absence reduction and substantially changing Royal Mail’s occupational health and welfare provision in recent years.
Royal Mail’s corporate turnaround over recent years has achieved significant improvements in profitability, quality of service and employee morale – Steve has been directly involved in the cross business initiatives on managing attendance and supporting changes to make the business “a Great Place to Work” in. He was also involved in redesigning the organisation’s ill health retirement scheme, and improving opportunities for rehabilitation. Steve has published widely and is an experienced contributor to conferences and public meetings.
Steve holds honorary appointments as an honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, with the Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Birmingham and is a Past President of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Occupational Medicine. He is Chief Examiner to the Faculty of Occupational Medicine’s, Diploma in Occupational Medicine examination.
