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THE FUTURE OF SICKNESS ABSENCE MANAGEMENT……move away from GP
advice.
Jean Fisherwww.theohbusiness.co.uk
Why has the management of sickness absence not changed over the years?
How many Managers still think GP’s have a role in fitness for work advice?
GPs have no training in Occupational Medicine so why do companies still ask them about employee fitness for work?
For the little more than the cost of that GP report you can help your employee to get ‘fixed‘ and back to work
Companies are unhappy when Occupational Health cannot ‘get employees back to work’…..this is often true as employee is waiting for a diagnosis.
What can OH do if the employee is waiting for an NHS appointment to diagnose symptoms…..nothing?
Employers therefore just watch and wait for the NHS.Employees feel helpless and mental health can suffer.
In any other area of a business action would be taken to manage this business risk.
January 2016 the CIPD produced its report ‘Growing the health and wellbeing agenda:
From first steps to full potential’.
https://www.cipd.co.uk/publicpolicy/policy-reports/health-
well-being-agenda.aspx
This vision encourages business to develop the health and wellbeing agenda to improve their bottom line.
Do you have a budget which supports sickness and not health?
Are you inadvertently paying employees to stay off sick?
WHY NOT DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?
You may have an EAP…so why not extend this approach to paying for a
simple MRI scan or some physiotherapy?
Use the £500 tax incentive available through the Fit for Work Service to pay for diagnostics and
treatment.
http://tinyurl.com/goley34DWP Guidance Page 15.
The medical treatments must be recommended by a healthcare professional from Fit for Work or by a healthcare professional within your own occupational health service for the tax exemption to be applicable.
SOME OPTIONS YOU COULD INTRODUCE……
Cash plans can support treatments.Private hospitals are not that expensive. What about on site physio?
CONTACT ME TO DISCUSS HOW I CAN HELP.
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