Work Doctor Occupational Health

Doctor-led occupational health for UK and Irish employers

Work Doctor Occupational Health is a doctor-led occupational health business that describes itself as providing independent services to self-employed workers and to companies of all sizes. Its offer is built around bespoke programmes adapted to each organisation or individual, and it states that it covers all of the UK and Ireland. The service combines online and in-person delivery, with doctors and staff based across the country who can carry out assessments either at a clinic or at the client's premises.

The company presents its approach as a way to help businesses stay compliant, reduce absence costs and improve productivity. Its stated areas of work run from sickness absence management and case management to health surveillance, drug and alcohol testing and pre-placement assessments.

Employee support and absence management

Under its employee support strand, the provider lists absence trend analysis and wellbeing services alongside assessments linked to fitness for work. The workability and occupational health assessment lines sit within this area, as do management referrals, which the company describes as a medical referral service handled by experienced doctors who aim to action referrals promptly and with impartial advice.

The same block includes ill health retirement assessments and pension medical reports, aimed at employers managing longer-term cases and formal occupational health processes.

Safety-critical screening and transport medicals

A dedicated section covers screening for safety-critical roles and transport work. The catalogue of services shown includes pre-placement screening, forklift driver medicals, HGV/LGV/PCV medicals, rail medicals, a specialist fit-to-work medical, oil and gas UK medicals, specialist medicals for working at heights and lead medicals.

These sit alongside the company's broader fitness-for-work offer, which it frames as a way to address employees whose health affects their ability to attend or remain in work, whether because of illness, surgery or injury.

Health surveillance and hazard-specific medicals

Work Doctor OH provides bespoke health surveillance and health screening programmes intended to help clients meet HSE legislative requirements for workplace hazards. The services listed under this heading include HSE asbestos medicals, ionising radiation medicals, biological monitoring, HAVS medicals and HAVS Tier 4 medicals, drug and alcohol testing, mobile X-rays, mobile chest X-rays, silica RCS assessment and occupational radiography.

The company also addresses display screen equipment use, offering DSE and ergonomic assessments for employees working at home or in the office, on the basis that employers have an obligation to ensure underlying conditions are not affected by ongoing DSE work.

Vaccination programmes and wellbeing

The service list includes vaccination and immunisation programmes, grouped with the wider wellbeing services offer. These are presented as part of the same occupational health framework rather than as a separate clinical line.

Clinical team and industry experience

Dr Sarwar Chowdhury is identified as Chief Medical Officer and as a Consultant Specialist Occupational Physician. In the material, the CMO states that the team has worked with industries including rail, hospital, white collar, manufacturing and supply factories and warehouses, and that this experience allows it to cover a wide range of industry clients.

Dr Khalid Sachak is named Chief Operating Officer. He studied medicine at the University of Warwick, oversees clinical delivery, corporate partnerships and medical logistics across the UK, and works as a GP in the West Midlands. He also acts as a Foster and Adoption Medical Advisor to Warwickshire County Council and to independent fostering agencies, and is a DVLA delegated doctor carrying out official drug and alcohol testing for the DVLA. Through the sister organisation Midland Medical Group, which the company says operates from more than 40 clinics nationwide, he oversees professional driver medicals, including D4 HGV and taxi assessments, airport airside driver medicals and MATS climber fitness checks. The same material mentions pre-employment and occupational health screening, police medicals, construction health tracking and safety-critical medicals for commercial clients.

Referrals, booking and practical arrangements

The company accepts clinical referrals from healthcare professionals for support with work-related stress and burnout. Booking is split between individuals booking for themselves and employers booking for employees, and the site also publishes a price list in pounds sterling. The provider states that its support team and clinic availability operate seven days per week, and that it works on either a pay-as-you-go basis or through tailored monthly packages.

It also states that it is ICO registered and commits to clinical standards and data security protocols. The site cites UK workforce health figures, including an £85 billion annual cost to the UK economy from sick staff, £103 billion a year in sickness absence costs to UK employers, 148.9 million working days lost each year and an average of 21.6 days lost per case of stress, attributing them to the Keep Britain Working review, ONS labour market data and CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work reports.

Testimonials shown on the site include comments from Vickie Loh, director of Proactive Health and Mind Limited, and Pippa Crouch, clinical director at Global Occupational Health Solutions, both describing the service as bespoke, responsive and professional, with particular mention of report quality and HAVS Tier 4 work.

Locations across the UK and Ireland

The company lists locations in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Chessington, Coventry, Dublin, Dundee, Durham, Edinburgh, Fareham, Gatwick, Glasgow, Hornsey, Leicester, Merseyside, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Sevenoaks, Sunderland and Wales. Its head office is given as 312A Charter Avenue, Coventry CV4 8DA.