None Of Our Business? - How Places of Work Can Help to Improve the

None Of Our Business? How Places of Work Can Help to Improve the Health of the Nation Sean Phillips & Stuart Carroll Foreword by The Rt Hon The Lord Blunkett PC FAcSS None Of Our Business? How Places of Work Can Help to Improve the Health of the Nation Sean Phillips & Stuart Carroll Foreword by The Rt Hon The Lord Blunkett PC FAcSS Policy Exchange is the UK’s leading think tank. [...] It is particularly pleasing to see recommendations which seek to enhance the visibility of occupational health as a specialism across undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and in encouraging the development of a Centre for Health and Work Research to improve our understanding of the link between work and health, and how workplace-based interventions can enable a more preventative healthcare sys. [...] We suggest a range of measures to boost the supply of occupational health professionals over the medium term by making the most of the opportunity presented by the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan by boosting the visibility of occupational health in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula; clarifying training and accreditation pathways across all relevant roles and creating a greater number of opport. [...] The Medical Schools Council, Council of Deans of Health and Universities UK (and their members) should work with the National School of Occupational Health (NSOH) to explore ways to enhance exposure to occupational health in curricula and to expand placement opportunities. [...] The health of our society and the health of our economy are inextricably linked.”25 Wes Streeting MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care “Officials at the Department of Work and Pensions know they are in the grip of a seismic shift in the nature of why people are falling into sickness benefit.”26 The Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.