Work fit for a consultant?

Fit for work? Changing fit note practice among GPs.

Assessing fitness for work and writing a "fit note".

Findings have been mainly observational and thus may be influenced in part by health related selection for work. Nevertheless, a “best evidence synthesis” based largely on a review of systematic reviews concluded that the overall weight of evidence pointed strongly to health benefits from employment. When treating patients of working age, doctors should therefore always consider the impact of t...

Fit-for-work or fit-for-unemployment? Does the reassessment of disability benefit claimants using a tougher work capability assessment help people into work?

BACKGROUND Many governments have introduced tougher eligibility assessments for out-of-work disability benefits, to reduce rising benefit caseloads. The UK government initiated a programme in 2010 to reassess all existing disability benefit claimants using a new functional checklist. We investigated whether this policy led to more people out-of-work with long-standing health problems entering e...

Survey of perceived stress and work demands of consultant doctors.

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to assess the work demands as potential stressors of health service consultants, and to describe the development of tools for measuring stress experiences of consultants. METHODS A stratified random sample of 500 NHS consultants in Scotland was targeted by a postal questionnaire and 375 (75%) returned a valid response. They completed questionnaires...

Improving fit to work assessments for rail safety workers by exploring work limitations

PURPOSE We aim to provide evidence for improving fit to work assessments for rail safety workers and raised the question whether adding an assessment of work limitations is useful. Therefore, we assessed differences in the proportions of perceived work limitations and reported health complaints and whether older age or having health complaints are risk factors for having work limitations. MET...