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Occupational health services contracts

UK public sector · 117 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
117
Last 12 months
Median contract
£176k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£114m
105 of 117 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
105
Suppliers
40

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most occupational health services contracts took 54% of them (63 of 117).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 29% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £176k, is 67% above the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).

Who buys occupational health services

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)4 contracts
  2. 2East London NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  3. 3Ministry of Justice2 contracts
  4. 4Dundee City Council2 contracts
  5. 5Solent University2 contracts
  6. 6Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service2 contracts
  7. 7Anchor Hanover Group2 contracts
  8. 8NHS England2 contracts
  9. 9New College Lanarkshire2 contracts
  10. 10H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS1 contract

Top occupational health services contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Health Partners18 contracts
  2. 2PAM Group16 contracts
  3. 3Optima Health14 contracts
  4. 4Innovate Healthcare10 contracts
  5. 5Medigold Health8 contracts
  6. 6Latus Group6 contracts
  7. 7UKIM Occupational Health & Wellbeing4 contracts
  8. 8Heales Medical4 contracts
  9. 9COPE Occupational Health and Ergonomic Services Ltd3 contracts
  10. 10Spire Healthcare2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

21Q4 2025*38Q1 202630Q2 202627Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 105 · Scotland 10 · Northern Ireland 2

London18East of England13North West9Scotland9North East7West Midlands7South East7Yorkshire and The Humber5East Midlands5South West5Northern Ireland2UK-wide or not stated30

What is included

A contracted occupational health service for the buyer's employees: management referrals and fitness-for-work assessments, pre-employment health checks, advice to managers on absence and adjustments, and often health surveillance, immunisations and ill-health retirement, usually from a SEQOHS-accredited provider. Includes referral-only and ad hoc OH advice contracts and combined OH and EAP contracts where OH leads.

  • Full occupational health contracts for staff
  • Management referrals and fitness-for-work or return-to-work assessments
  • Pay-per-referral and ad hoc occupational health advice on absence cases
  • Occupational health case management
  • On-site OH clinics run by the provider
  • Combined OH, health surveillance and EAP contracts where OH is the main object
  • OH frameworks and managed OH service providers
  • Nurse-led OH services for a site workforce

What is not included

  • Stand-alone health surveillance programmes (rec.occh.health-surveillance)
  • Stand-alone employee assistance programmes (rec.occh.employee-assistance-programme)
  • Sessional OH physicians or nurses supplementing an in-house team (hlt.occ.oh-physician-and-nurse-sessions)
  • Health clearance for students on clinical placement and stand-alone pre-placement questionnaires (rec.occh.student-and-pre-placement-health-clearance)
  • Stand-alone drug and alcohol testing (rec.occh.drug-and-alcohol-testing)
  • Stand-alone staff flu and immunisation programmes (rec.occh.staff-vaccination)
  • Stand-alone ill-health retirement and IRMP opinions (rec.occh.ill-health-retirement-assessments)
  • Nurse-led absence reporting lines bought alone (rec.occh.absence-reporting-line)
  • Stand-alone staff physiotherapy (rec.occh.staff-physiotherapy-msk)
  • Stand-alone DSE and workstation assessments (rec.occh.dse-workstation-assessments)
  • Stand-alone job-related fitness testing (rec.occh.job-related-fitness-testing)
  • Pre-employment background and DBS checks (rec.check.pre-employment-screening, rec.check.dbs-checks)
  • Occupational health case management software (it.ent.occupational-health-system)
  • Occupational hygiene and exposure monitoring (csl.tech.occupational-hygiene)
  • Health assessments of patients, residents or claimants (another industry: healthcare)

Often bought by the same buyers