In the latest instalment of our HR industry executive interview series we spoke to Echelon Health‘s Medical Director Dr. Paul Jenkins (pictured) about preventive health assessments, workplace wellbeing, the importance of work-life balance and more…
Tell us about your company, products and services.
Echelon Health was established over 15 years ago to provide advanced preventive health assessments to individuals and corporate clients. Based in London’s Harley Street, we utilise a combination of blood tests and incredibly detailed imaging using CT, MRI and ultrasound scanners to detect the earliest stages of many diseases
What is so unique about your product?
Quite simply, we are confident that we provide the most advanced and detailed preventive health assessment available in the world. We are the only company to recognise that no single medical scanner can screen for every disease and therefore we combine the imaging capabilities of each of the latest scanning technologies – CT, MRI, ultrasound and mammography to provide an unrivalled insight into almost every part of the body and allows us to detect the very earliest stages of many diseases. Indeed, independent analysis has demonstrated that we can detect up to 92% and 95% of the causes of premature death among men and women respectively.
What have been the biggest opportunities between HR and healthcare industries?
The increasing recognition, especially since Covid, that employee’s health and well-being is essential to the long-term success of a company and that having an effective and proven means to support this will pay dividend.
How can HR departments choose the best preventative health care product for their employees?
They need to determine what techniques the product is actually using and whether the assessment looks at the employee as an individual and uses scans to see under the skin or merely uses blood tests and population-based statistics to generate a risk of disease. The latter, while good for the NHS, is not sufficient on an individual basis.
In 2025 we’ll all be talking about…?
The importance of optimising the work-life balance and maintaining good health into and beyond the retirement age.
What’s the most exciting thing about your job?
The ability to truly save lives through early detection of many diseases that otherwise would cause premature death and utilising my medical knowledge derived from over 30 years clinical practice to facilitate this.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Do not try and attempt to do everything yourself but recognise your strengths and weaknesses and build the right team to complement these. A proper team will far outweigh the sum of its individuals.
