Returning people back to work after sickness absence and enabling them to stay at work is challenging, especially where the person is experiencing mental ill health – either as a...
VRA member Lisa Whittleton of Illuminate VR Services Ltd joined the panel at a recent event for Birmingham, Coventry and Warwickshire CIPD branches on mental wellbeing in the workplace. She...
A biopsychosocial reflection of the impact on sickness absence and the need for vocational rehabilitation. Background In this article, I argue that the importance of psychosocial factors associated to...
The PROWORK project is funded by the Midlands Engine and is part of the Mental Health and Productivity Pilot which aims to support employers across the Midlands Engine to improve...
This guide is no longer being updated. This is the third of our series of resources guides in response to Covid-19 for return to work practitioners in the rehabilitation and...
A selection of the best free or cheap options we've found for CPD for VR practitioners initially developed during the first Covid lockdown. We will keep adding to this page...
This guide is no longer being updated. We also have a guide to free online CPD that may be useful and one on return to work during and post Covid-19...
The Equality Act gives disabled employees the right to not be discriminated against in work, and a right to reasonable adjustments* if they need them. But poor understanding of this...
Nearly two-fifths of UK businesses (37%) have seen an increase in stress-related absence over the last year, with heavy workloads and poor management style to blame, according to a recent...
Advisers will be recruited to help patients live fitter, healthier lives and combat anxiety, loneliness and depression under plans to ramp up social prescribing set to be launched by NHS...
