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The value of occupational health to the NHS workforce

Discover how NHS Occupational Health teams assist staff in maintaining health, reducing absences, and promoting well-being. Learn about the core functions, benefits, and resources in occupational health for a thriving healthcare workforce.

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The value of occupational health to the NHS workforce

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  1. The value of occupational health to the NHS workforce

  2. OH teams help NHS staff stay in work and live full and healthy lives. This includes helping reduce sickness absence and helping to rehabilitate those who have suffered injury or sickness back into work. • OH also plays a crucial role in health promotion and health surveillance – helping keep NHS staff healthy. • The NHS workforce in primary and acute care should have access to good occupational health support.

  3. Core functions of an NHS OH service • Prevention of ill health caused or exacerbated by work • Timely intervention, facilitating easy and early treatment of the main causes of sickness absence in the NHS • Rehabilitation to help staff stay at work or return to work after illness • Health assessments for work supporting organisations to manage attendance, retirement and related matters • Promotion of health and wellbeing using work as a means of improving health and wellbeing and using the workplace to promote health • Teaching and training promoting the health and wellbeing approach amongst staff and managers

  4. There are 134 in house NHS OH services in England; 38 NHS Trusts outsource their OH provision to external, non NHS, providers. Delivered by: • Organisational involvement e.g. Infection Prevention and Control, Health and Safety, Workforce and Organisational Development, contributing to policies, research and practice which maximise staff health, wellbeing and ‘good’ work • Direct clinical contacts between OH team and individual members of staff or students

  5. A report based on 146 references: 50 systematic reviews and meta-analyses 37 studies 17 research reports 42 other publications Nicholson PJ. Occupational health: the value proposition. Society of Occupational Medicine. London. 2017. https://www.som.org.uk/sites/som.org.uk/files/Occupational%20health%20-%20the%20value%20proposition.pdf

  6. There are good reasons for employers to commit to a culture of health: • Financial - employee ill health = 2-16% of payroll • Legal – prosecutions, fines, reputation • Moral – as part of ‘corporate social responsibility’

  7. Cost of work-related illness & injury

  8. Ergonomic interventions

  9. Occupational safety and health

  10. Workplace health promotion

  11. Evidence for WHP

  12. OH - Proven economic value

  13. Stress

  14. Anxiety and depression

  15. Benefits provided by OHS

  16. Resources • 2019 Health and Work Consensus Statement for Action – a shared commitment to support healthcare professionals in helping people to stay in or return to work. • Work and Health e-learning from PHE/Health Education England provides a practical source for improved knowledge and practice. The modules include advice on work for people with mental health and musculoskeletal problems, cancer and other long-term conditions. It also includes a module on self-care for healthcare professionals • All Our Health e-learning tool on workplace health - free to use and offers bitesize information and practical advice to help professionals prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing at work. • Health Matters: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-matters-health-and-work/health-matters-health-andwork

  17. SOM activity Documents on: • Commissioning OH • Choosing an OH IT provider • Career in OH document, with allied video Growing the SOM Corporate Supporter scheme Hosting “MSK and work network”

  18. SOM Webinars

  19. SOM events - Dates for your diary Annual Scientific Conference 8-10th June 2020 Edinburgh RSM/SOM event on Occupational Health Respiratory issues 1st July 2020 London Events with British Psychological Society on 9th October and RCN on 29th November

  20. SOM policy activity • Consultation events on “health is everyone’s business” • Meeting with NHS Medical Director, Chief Nurse and NMC • Round tables with CIPD and Federation of Small Business • Coming up - Round table on Sleep and shift working - 6th November

  21. Encouraging research • Welcome to submit articles via om@som.org.uk • Host OH Academic Forum • Launch of OH Research value proposition report at House of Lords – 26th June • Free Authors workshop – 6th December – contact om@som.org.uk to attend

  22. Questions?

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