1. Healthy Working Wales October 6th 2010 Presenter: Sally Venn

2. Aims To engage businesses, health professionals and individuals to:
improve health at work
reduce the incidence and impact of ill health at work
provide access to appropriate advice and support on health and work issues
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3. Sally Venn

4. GP engagement The problem 2/3rds sickness absence from work: The need
Common mental health problems
Musculoskeletal disorders
Cardio respiratory problems
The need
Amongst health professionals to ensure:
Consistent messages on health and work
Raised awareness of the health benefits of work
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5. Goals
That an individual’s employment situation will become an integral part of assessment and management of all clinical encounters
That all health professionals give appropriate advice in relation to health and work – both directly and in terms of appropriate signposting
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6. Building on previous success
Welsh Backs
Change in GP behaviour
Significant increase in number of GPs giving the stay active message
Decrease in number of GPs advising rest
Change in population health beliefs
Staying active with back pain
Not resting with back pain
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7. Strategic approach Develop consistent, clear and concise messages
Plan an effective dissemination strategy
Work with key stakeholders to deliver the strategy
Monitor, evaluate, feed back
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8. Clear messages Work is usually good for people’s health
Early intervention is important to prevent long term worklessness
For people with back pain ‘staying active’ usually means staying in work
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9. Supporting GPs Healthy Working Wales website
E-learning
Desk aids
Downloadable leaflets / publications
‘Ask the expert’ advice
Health and Work Advice Line
The Back Book
National Education Programme
RCGP half-day accredited training
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10. Effective dissemination
RCGP Events
350 GPs
Mailing of information to signpost to resources (such as Back Book, signposting documents, WAMH in PC, online resources, CPD session and RCGP events) 2000 GPs
Online resources (Deanery learning modules; WeMeReC modules, HWW website)
600 GPs
CPD Sessions
(350 GPs) &
practice visits (400 GPs)
750 GPs
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11. Collaborative working
Welsh Assembly Government
Cardiff University
Postgraduate Deanery
Welsh Medicines Resource Centre
Royal College of General Practitioners
Institute of Rural Health
Health Boards
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12. Progress to date Questionnaire to all GP principals
28% (521/1891) response rate
GPs from 53.5% (261/488) of practices
DSU back pain pathway agreed
Focuses on ‘stay active’ message
Includes advice on fitness to work
Back pain educational tool completed
Produced and promoted by the Deanery
WeMeReC module on management of depression
Practice visits ongoing
CPD and RCGP accredited events arranged
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13. Questionnaire
Aims
Obtain baseline data of awareness of Health and Work resources
Raise awareness of these resources
Offer the opportunity to order Back Books
Identify those interested in attending RCGP accredited events
Offer a practice visit
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14. Findings Back Book Healthy Working Wales website
86% of respondents; 24% of all GPs (449/1891) had seen it
51% of respondents; 14% of all GPs (268/1891) ordered more
Healthy Working Wales website
23% of respondents; 6% of all GPs (118/1891) had heard of it
6% of respondents; 2% of all GPs (32) had used it
Health at Work Advice line
18% of respondents; 5% of all GPs (91) had heard of it
1% of respondents; 0.3% of all GPs (5) had used it
RCGP event
64% of respondents; 17.5% of all GPs (331) expressed interest in attending
Practice visits
44% of respondents; 12% of all GPs (231) expressed interest in a practice visit
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15. Ongoing work Practice visits CPD events RCGP accredited events
52 completed, 29 planned (81/488)
CPD events
Information stands
Presentations
RCGP accredited events
9 events planned
Other health professionals
Deanery projects
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16. Can we make a difference?
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17. Public Health in primary care
Primary care does do public health – the question is ‘does it do it well or does it do it badly’?
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18. With special thanks to Suzanne Burrows Gavin Jones Carol Tunnah
Wendy Bowler
Matt Downton
Alexia Saunders
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19. Any questions?
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