Advising on Fitness for Work and Supporting Rehabilitation course for GPs
This session focuses on assessing fitness for work and advising patients with health problems about returning to work or remaining in work.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Identify when a patient may be fit to return to work
- Correctly complete and use the statement of fitness for work to provide advice to the employer
- Provide advice that helps patients with health problems to remain in work or return to work, and which supports rehabilitation
- Integrate the principles of effective rehabilitation into a patient's management plan
Dr. Cohen is a Senior Medical Research Fellow at the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, School of Medicine, Cardiff University. She previously worked for 15 years as a General Practitioner. In 2000 she left General Practice to develop her career further in Occupational Medicine.
Debbie’s doctoral thesis (MD) investigated the fitness for work consultation in General Practice. This work led to the development of an e-learning programme for GPs that is informed by motivational interviewing. More recently she has led the development of Healthy Working Wales and a UK project that has developed a new website for primary care about work and health. A similar site for employers will be completed later this year for Wales. She has also developed and now co-leads the new National Programme for Work and Health for the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Debbie’s interests are in work and health, complex communication and how communication issues impact on the health and wellbeing of people in work.
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