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Government launches taskforce to improve occupational health

Employee Benefits

The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a taskforce to improve occupational health provision. The framework, which is expected this summer, will form part of the government’s drive to tackle in-work sicknesses, and reduce inactivity levels and waiting list times.

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New occupational health taskforce will ‘tackle in-work sickness and drive down inactivity’

Workplace Insight

Businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the Government’s new Occupational Health Tsar. According to the government, only 45 percent of workers in Britain currently have access to some form of Occupational Health service.