WISE-QM [Quality Mark for Wellbeing Initiatives and Services for Employees] is a new joint initiative between SOM and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). Together, we are committed to shaping a more transparent, consistent, and effective wellbeing landscape across workplaces.
WISE-QM is a sector wide quality mark designed to recognise, strengthen, and standardise the provision of workplace wellbeing services. The quality mark will be an important way to assist those who procure workplace wellbeing services to make effective choices based on good evidence. The WISE-QM initiative is a development from our initial work on this topic which you can find in this report.
The quality mark will help occupational health (OH) professionals, and those responsible for purchasing wellbeing products or services, to make informed and, hopefully, effective decisions whilst minimising the possibility of unintended consequences for workers.
The quality mark should also reduce the challenges faced by organisations by the increasing number of digital health solutions, such as insufficient evidence of effectiveness, data security issues, and ensuring access and engagement. It will also ensure ongoing monitoring of impact and evaluation of wellbeing interventions to confirm they are achieving the desired outcomes.
Overall, WISE-QM aims to provide a trusted benchmark for excellence, ensuring that organisations and employees receive support that is high quality, evidence informed, and genuinely impactful.
There is an online joining form for service providers to register their interest. Please pass onto wellbeing service providers that you work with.