Predicting job loss in those off sick.

Background: Evidence shows incapacity benefit claimants (those off sick >26 weeks) are at greatest risk of long-term job loss.

Aim: To develop a screening tool to select those at risk of job loss, defined as failure to return to work among those off sick. The screening tool was for use in the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Burying the evidence: how Great Britain is prolonging the occupational cancer epidemic.

The U.K. authorities are failing to acknowledge or deal effectively with an epidemic of work-related cancers.

Predictors of delayed return to work or job loss with respiratory ill-health: a systematic review.

Introduction: Every year approximately 17,000 people in the UK are off work through sickness for six or more weeks. Only fifty percent of those off for six months return to work.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify potential risk factors for non-return to work within six to 26 weeks or job loss in adult workers with respiratory ill-health.

The perceptions of occupational health in primary care.

Aim: A random sample of general practitioners (GPs), practice nurses (PNs) and practice managers (PMs) in Sheffield and Manchester was recruited into a study to evaluate the perceptions of occupational health (OH) in primary care.

Methods: Qualitative data were collected using focus groups with three groups of primary care sector professionals. Quantitative data were collected nationally from 295 GPs using a postal questionnaire.