UK workplace absence is at its highest level in over a decade, with the average employee now taking 7.8 sick days per year — costing British businesses an estimated £30 billion annually in lost productivity, sick pay and cover. For most employers, the standard responses (EAPs, gym discounts, private healthcare) are reactive and rarely shift the dial.

Knowsley-based founder Matt Maloney is offering local businesses something genuinely different.

Operating from Huyton, Matt has built an integrated preventative health ecosystem made up of three connected businesses — a combination not currently available anywhere else in the UK. Inner Me delivers clinical-grade blood diagnostics for the workforce, analysing 118 biomarkers and 32 health risk scores per employee with personalised recommendations and anonymised cohort reporting for the employer. AI Healthician provides executive-grade diagnostics and optimisation for senior leadership teams, with access to advanced testing and on-site therapeutics including hyperbaric oxygen. And Better Lives Collective CIC — Matt’s Community Interest Company based in Huyton — delivers preventative healthcare and wellbeing education to underserved local communities, opening up genuinely meaningful CSR and ESG opportunities for partner businesses.

“Most workplace wellbeing spend is reactive. By the time someone is off sick, the cost has already landed. What we do is find the underlying drivers — inflammation, hormone imbalance, cardiometabolic risk, nutrient deficiency — before they show up as absence. And because we operate clinically, executively and in the community from one base in Knowsley, employers can build a programme that works at every level of their business.” — Matt Maloney, Founder

Matt is offering Knowsley Chamber members a no-obligation 20-minute conversation to explore what might fit. To arrange an introduction, contact the Chamber or email Matt directly at matthew@betterlivescic.com.