The so-called Sherbrooke model, which aims at an early return to work (RTW) through integration of the workplace in the treatment programme, was first applied to low back pain. Evidence now indicates that this type of workplace-based intervention is more effective than usual healthcare ...
There have been several documents published recently on the subject of returning to work [1, 2]. These give recommendations regarding what a re-introduction to the workplace should involve. The Wessex Anaesthetists have developed a Return to Work Programme [3] which has been recognised ...
Get ready to return to work and identify your return to work plan. This should include the following Leadership team discuss and agree the business return to work programme Plan to prepare your building for occupancy Arrange to conduct a preoccupancy inspection and arrange a pre-occupancy deep cl...
Respondents are asked if they offer services to facilitate return to work (RTW), and if so, to describe them. The description was qualitatively analysed using the Atlas-ti programme to find the themes that best describe the services. We also studied characteristics of OHS predicting a return-...
To support return to work (RTW) among cancer patients, a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme was developed which combined occupational counselling with a supervised physical exercise programme during chemotherapy. The aim was to investigate RTW rates of cancer patients and to evaluate changes in wor...
Ms McDonnell eventually secured a place on an 11-week “Career Returners” programme with O2, open to men and women, which included being buddied with a 20-year-old male student who was also with the company on work experience. He helped to acquaint her with new technology, such as using...
The project will provide free-of-charge, work-readiness support to 100 parents and carers with tech or engineering experience who have taken career breaks over a year or more. The comprehensive programme includes return-to-work career coaching, job skills training and sector-specific upskilling and...
Uniquely the programme will connect with businesses looking to hire from the programme who will provide live briefs for our returners to work on throughout the 8 week period. Interested businesses can sponsor places on the course at a cost of just £4,500 per returner making it...
Workers' margin of manoeuvre during and after a gradual return to work programme: Definition and relationships with the return to work the indicators which need to be taken into consideration for evaluating this margin of manoeuvre in relation to the return to work of people with MSDs. ... MJ...
Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to learn about work-related stress in women and the return to work possibilities, and to develop a questionnaire for assessing work-related stress in women. Method: The thesis is based on two qualitative studies and two quantitative studies. The qualitat...