December 2017 Plans for Disability Employment
The government has launched a ten-year disability employment strategy.
It sets out the steps it will take to get more disabled people into work including:
Extending fit note certification beyond GPs to a wider group of healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists, psychiatrists and senior nurses, with a view to better identify health conditions and treatments in order to help workers go back into their jobs faster
Introducing an enhanced training offer for work coaches to help them work with benefit claimants with mental health conditions
Investing £39 million to more than double the number of employment advisers in an existing NHS programme treating people with depression and anxiety disorders
Responding in full to the 40 recommendations of the Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers including reforming statutory sick pay and improving advice and support for employers and
Appointing an Expert Working Group on Occupational Health to champion, shape and drive a programme of work to take an in-depth look at the sector
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