Consultation outcome

Occupational Health: Working Better

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 20 July 2023
• Last updated: 24 November 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

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Occupational Health: Working Better - Summary of Responses to the Consultation and the UK Government Response

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Occupational Health: Working Better Summary of Responses to the Consultation and the UK Government Response (large print)

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Iechyd Galwedigaethol: Gweithio’n Well - Crynodeb o Ymatebion i'r Ymgynghoriad ac Ymateb Llywodraeth y DU

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Detail of outcome

The government published its response to this consultation on 22 November 2023.

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Original consultation

Summary

A consultation seeking views on proposals aimed at increasing employer use of Occupational Health Services.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 19 July 2023 to 11:59pm on 12 October 2023

Consultation description

Tackling economic inactivity due to long-term sickness is a top priority for the government. Increasing labour force participation supports the Prime Minister’s priorities of halving inflation and growing the economy. The Chancellor announced £2 billion at the Spring Budget 2023 to support disabled people and people with health conditions to work. This included a package of two consultations. This consultation, “Occupational Health: Working Better” is seeking views on proposals aimed at increasing employer use of Occupational Health (OH) Services. While the other, “Tax Incentives for Occupational Health”, is aimed at employers and exploring the role of tax incentives in boosting occupational health provision by employers.

Together these consultations will inform the government’s approach to supporting occupational health provision, and so both of these consultations should be read together.

Through the “Occupational Health: Working Better” consultation, to better support businesses, government intends to seek views on establishing an agreement and partnership between government, employers and OH providers to help drive an ambitious increase in OH coverage, specifically in relation to:

• the introduction of a national ‘health at work’ standard to help provide a baseline for quality OH provision including guidance, the option of pursuing accreditation and additional government-funded support services as well as employer best practice sharing (Chapter 1);
• best practice from other countries and other UK-based employer models that enable employers to provide support for their employees (set out in Chapter 2); and
• developing work and health workforce capacity through new service models, building the skills mix and diversity of the current workforce and partnering with the private sector to develop a long term sustainable multidisciplinary OH workforce (set out in Chapter 3).

We particularly welcome views from:

• Employers
• Healthcare Professionals
• Non-Healthcare Professionals
• Occupational Health Providers

Find out how to respond to this consultation.

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Occupational Health: Working Better

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Published 20 July 2023
Last updated 24 November 2023 + show all updates

1. 24 November 2023

   Added document with links to the consultation response in British Sign Language.

2. 22 November 2023

   Added Summary of Responses to the Consultation and the UK Government Response.

3. 9 August 2023

   Added British Sign language (BSL) version of the consultation.

4. 9 August 2023

   Published an updated response form.

5. 1 August 2023

   Added an HTML version of the consultation.

6. 27 July 2023

   Updated the Occupational Health: Working Better consultation response form.

7. 21 July 2023

   Replaced response form as question 20 was missing from the form originally published.

8. 20 July 2023

   First published.