SPECIAL REPORT: Working better

UK government’s plans to improve access to OH

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Occupational Health [at Work] analyses the UK government’s response to its ‘Working better’ consultation.

The UK government has published its response to the Occupational health: working better public consultation² on proposals aimed at increasing employers’ use of OH services, which it launched in July 2023. The report sets out the government’s plans to improve employers’ and employees’ access to OH, along with a summary of responses from the organisations and individuals that took part in the consultation.

The government says it will: support businesses through a voluntary minimum framework for quality OH provision; explore voluntary national workplace health and disability standards; consider options for a group-purchasing framework for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and develop a long-term approach to building a multidisciplinary work and health workforce The government did not provide a response regarding its proposal for a national OH-provision accreditation scheme for employers and, at the time of going to press…

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Occupational Health at Work February/March 2024 (vol. 20/5) pp15-20

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