David C. Batman

Dr David Batman has been a registered medical practitioner in the UK for over 40 years. He started work as a General Practitioner and has always recognized the importance of patient lifestyle affecting health risks. However, after trying to get his patients to adopt healthy lifestyles he recognized the vast majority wanted a quick solution via either prescription or operation. He also became very aware of the relationship between work and health which is not a major part of a doctor’s training and decided to move to a medical specialty.

He left General Practice in 1988 and retrained as a Specialist Consultant in Occupational Medicine gaining higher qualifications and has been awarded a Fellowship by his UK Professional body. He spent 20 years as Head of Occupational Health, Safety, and Employee Wellbeing for Nestle in the UK and Ireland and has special interests in mental health at work, risk assessments, rehabilitation, and resettlement of employees. He has been part of a number of UK Government employee health committees.