Occupational Health Services: Standards for Accreditation

The Standards, the first in the UK for occupational health services, outline the minimum requirements that will apply to OH services that participate in the UK voluntary accreditation scheme, and provide OH services with a framework for quality assurance. To view the Standards, click here.

Right to Control

The UK Government ran a consultation from 11 June to 30 September 2009 on the new right to give individuals with disabilities more control over the funding they receive. To read more about the Government's response to the consultation, click here.

Work, Recovery and Inclusion

A report entitled "Work, Recovery and Inclusion" released by the Cabinet Office on 7 December 2009 outlines that people with the most severe mental health conditions are able to not only work, but that working benefits their mental health positively and can support their recovery. Click here to read more.

New Horizons - A Shared Vision for Mental Health

New Horizons is a cross-government action programme, produced by the Department of Health and including commitments to action by 11 government departments. It sets out a new approach with the twin aims of improving people’s quality of life and well-being, and improving the quality and accessibility of services for people with poor mental health. Read more here.

Working our Way to Better Mental Health: a framework for action

This Framework, the first ever national mental health and employment strategy in the UK, is designed to improve well-being at work for everyone, and to deliver significantly better employment results for people with mental health conditions. Access the Framework here.

Realising ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition

This report on mental health and employment, commissioned  by the Department for Works and Pension, sets out the reviewers’ vision for change to ensure the Government can better help more people with mental health conditions who are workless into sustained employment. Read more here.

A Future Vision for Mental Health

This report sets out a vision for good mental health across our society requiring responses from all parts of the public sector, and calls for a cabinet level champion to make good mental health ingrained into government policy. Read more here.

Transforming community services: ambition, action, achievement

The Transformational Guide focusing on rehabilitation services is  part of a Department of Health programme aimed at improving community services. The Guide helps to support NHS practitioners and clinical leaders in transforming services locally. Read more here.

Vocational Rehabilitation: what is it, who can deliver it and who pays?

In 2008 the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the College of Occupational Therapists joined forces to host expert roundtable discussions which addressed the thorny, practical issues about vocational rehabilitation - what is it, who can deliver it, who pays? This paper is the result, and can be accessed here.

Working for a Healthier Tomorrow

In Dame Carol Black's Review into the health of Britain's working age population, there is a call for urgent and comprehensive reform and a new approach to health and work in the UK. To read the Review, click here. 

View the Government's response to the Review here.

The Rehabilitation Code

The Code, published by the Rehabilitation Working Party, provides an approved framework for injury claims. Its aim is to promote the use of rehabilitation and early intervention in the compensation process so that the injured person makes the best and quickest recovery. Access the full Code and the two-page summary here.