Links to
resources:
Creating a healthy
work environment
Employer module
Removing the barriers: The facts about mental health and
employment
Briefing 40, Centre
for Mental Health, August 2009
This briefing looks at the
barriers to employment for people with both common and severe
mental health problems and at the initiatives that are being
undertaken by the public, voluntary and commercial sectors to
support their efforts to find and sustain work.
Realising
ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental
health condition
Rachel Perkins, Paul
Farmer and Paul Litchfield
Department for Work
and Pensions, December 2009
This review was commissioned
by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to look at mental
health and employment and to identify how Government could help
people with mental health conditions fulfil their employment
ambitions. Chapter
4 includes a summary of the 4Rs (raise, respond, recommend,
refer) for primary care and mental health professionals when
addressing the employment needs of people with a mental health
condition.
ACAS
(Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)
Health, work and
wellbeing, 2010
This booklet includes
checklists to help you to evaluate how healthy the workplace is and
to identify situations where action is needed.
Health and Safety Executive
(HSE)
The mission of the HSE is to
prevent death, injury and ill health in Great Britain’s
workplaces. HSE resources on mental health conditions are
focussed on work related ‘stress’.
This is the link to a step by
step approach to implementing the HSE management
standards which represent a set of conditions that, if present,
reflect a high level of health well-being and organisational
performance. This approach is supported with specific
guidance and tools to see whether the organisation is ready to
change and how to secure the commitment across the organisation
needed to effect change. This may help in any discussion or
evaluation of the conditions in your patient’s workplace.
The HSE has produced a simple questionnaire
which links questions about the nature of a person’s work and
workplace environment to the six categories or causes of
stress.
MIND
Is a mental health charity in
England and Wales. It has resources for employers accessed
via the website link to Employers take care of your
business
The ‘Taking Care of
Business’ booklet includes practical tips on how to assess
mental wellbeing in the workplace, how to plan improvements, how to
tackle the causes of mental ill-health and support staff.
These may be useful in discussing the culture and support available
in your patient’s workplace.
SHiFT
SHiFT is a Department of
Health-funded initiative to tackle stigma and discrimination
surrounding mental health issues in England. This checklist
is designed for managers to help them to assess the capability of
the organisation with respect to managing mental health issues in
the workplace. The checklists may be helpful in discussing
the support available in your patient’s workplace.
Body and Soul: Exploring the connection between physical
and mental health conditions
Katherine Ashby and Robin McGee, September 2010
The Work Foundation
This report includes a section on
interventions in the workplace to improve work outcomes.
Promoting
mental wellbeing through productive and healthy working conditions:
guidance for employers, November 2009
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
(NICE)
This public health guidance was developed by
NICE using rigorous methodology including reviewing the available
academic evidence, economic analysis and engagement with various
stakeholders. The guidance includes recommendations for
action in the form of ‘who should take action’ and ‘what should
they do’.
Mental
health and environmental exposures
Institute for
Children’s Environmental Health, Learning and Developmental
Disabilities Initiative, November 2008
This fact sheet discusses the
connections between environmental exposures to physical and
chemical agents with mental health symptoms and conditions.
While it is recognised that environmental exposures to toxic
substances can lead to disease, disability and other medical
conditions, the connections to psychiatric conditions are not as
well known. However, there is a substantial amount of
scientific evidence that certain exposures can lead to both
temporary and long-term psychiatric symptoms and illness.
eLearning for
health
This is an eLearning resource
for primary care professionals. It aims to improve their knowledge,
skills and confidence when dealing with issues relating to work and
health.
Health e-Working offers six
interactive sessions of e-learning with practical examples and
guidance on how to improve patient care. One of the six sessions is
called “Making the occupational link”. This resource has been
developed by a steering group led the Faculty of Occupational
Medicine in partnership with the Royal College of General
Practitioners, the Society of Occupational Medicine and e-Learning
for Healthcare.
Healthy
working UK
This website has been
developed in collaboration with the Royal College of General
Practitioners, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and Society of
Occupational Medicine and is based on the Healthy Working Wales
pilot developed by Cardiff University and the Welsh Assembly
Government. It provides GPs and other primary healthcare
professionals with timely access to information, training and
decision aids to support the management of health and
work.
Practical tips for a busy GP
Royal College of General
Practitioners,
A healthier tomorrow
This links to the health
tomorrow- practical tips part of the website. It includes
simple questions that GPs can ask patients about their work and any
potential issues linking health issues to the workplace.
Please note that these pages are only accessible to members
of the RCGP and subscribers to the college.
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