DH Health and Wellbeing Strategy
The Government launched ‘Healthy staff, better care for patients’ on 29 July. This sets out the Government’s proposals for the practical realignment of occupational health services in the NHS. The aim is to help NHS organisations to be exemplary in occupational health provision and staff health and wellbeing in line with the Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal.
Alongside these proposals, the Department of Health’s Improvement Framework provides support and direction for commissioners and providers to establish occupational health departments that deliver services that meet the full breadth of NHS staff health &well-being needs.
NHS Plus and the NHS Health at Work Network are working in partnership with the Department of Health and NHS Employers to support this work through our Quality Strategy.
Dr Ursula Ferriday, Chair of the NHS Health at Work Network said that she was delighted with the publication of ‘Healthy staff; better care for patients’ and expected that NHS occupational health services would want to rise to the challenge of providing high quality support.
Prof John Harrison, NHS Plus Director, called upon commissioners to adopt a more strategic and challenging approach to their expectations of OH providers and added that he looked forward to NHS occupational health services playing a broader role in the Public Health Responsibility Deal.
Dr John Harrison, Director of NHS Plus and Dr Ursula Ferriday, Chair of the NHS Health at Work Network were asked about the DH Health and Wellbeing strategy by Occupational Health magazine. The full article can be viewed here.
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