What this delivers for your business
- Risk translation: We turn complex medical data into clear commercial strategy. Your leadership team gets advice they can act on, not clinical jargon they can’t, particularly where strategy intersects with our Employee Assistance Programme and wider workforce wellbeing initiatives.
- Policy that stands up: Health policies are legal documents. Poorly drafted ones create tribunal exposure. We draft, review and stress-test your policies so they’re medically sound and commercially defensible.
- Independent assurance: Clinical governance audits of your existing health arrangements identify gaps, inefficiencies and compliance risks before an HSE inspector does.
Core services
Outsourced Chief Medical Officer
A retainer-based consultancy that places a senior Occupational Health Physician on your side of the table. They advise the board on emerging threats, oversee clinical governance across your supply chain, and represent your interests in regulatory dealings.
Policy Development & Review
Drug and alcohol testing protocols, mental health frameworks and stress management policies, including drug and alcohol policy for offshore operations and remote worksites.
Clinical Governance Audits
Independent review of your existing medical facilities, first aid arrangements or third-party providers, including analysis of Management Referral reports and Occupational Health case outcomes. You receive a gap analysis with clear recommendations for remediation.
Why MCL for Strategic Medical Advice
Our senior physicians hold GMC registration and bring decades of operational experience across government, healthcare, energy and defence. MCL has been providing board-level medical guidance since 1999. All advisory work sits within our clinical governance and accreditation framework, ensuring recommendations meet independently audited clinical standards. Our physicians are trained within standards set by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.
FAQs
Not necessarily. Our outsourced CMO model gives you senior physician expertise on a retainer basis, without the cost of a permanent hire. You get board-level medical advice when you need it, scaled to your organisation.
Standard OH focuses on individual case management, referrals and surveillance. Strategic medical advice operates at organisational level: policy design, supply chain governance, regulatory engagement and board reporting.
Yes. We conduct independent clinical governance audits of third-party OH providers, first aid arrangements and in-house medical facilities. You receive a gap analysis with clear remediation recommendations.
Government departments, NHS trusts, energy operators, large FM companies and any organisation where medical governance carries regulatory or reputational risk.