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Sustainable return-to-work, with help from Vocational Rehabilitation

Employee Benefits

By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits For employees with long-term and chronic health conditions, returning to work – or even staying in work – is rarely black and white. It’s not always a case of being fully at work, or not. Or being fully fit, or not.

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Why ‘work ability’ is helping evolve absence management

Employee Benefits

On that note, momentum is also building on the notion that work has a really important role to play in recovery and ongoing condition management, in terms of giving hope and ensuring people feel valued, supported and equipped. We specifically focus on the work ability model (and its biopsychosocial underpinning). What is it?

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How to create a return-to-work support plan for newly injured or ill staff

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A return-to-work plan should be devised collaboratively between the employer and employee. The best plans will be flexible depending on the condition and circumstances involved, continually evolve, be kept under review and aim to achieve a sustainable return.

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Is Long Covid reshaping workplace support for long-term conditions?

Employee Benefits

It can present significant challenges in the workplace because, unlike with long-term conditions such as cancer and diabetes, the prevalence rates for Long Covid are greatest in the working age population (35-69 years). Some conditions are obviously much more prevalent than others at working ages.

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Cancer prevention and early detection: employer support

Employee Benefits

There are around 1,000 new cancer cases in the UK every day , according to latest available data from Cancer Research UK (2016-2018). I think employers are increasingly aware that they need to protect their workforce; that their workforce is precious. And that one of the ways of protecting their people is by offering cancer screening.”