Employment Advisers in GPs' Surgeries: Some Potential Success Factors
Author: Booth, David
Source: Journal of Occupational Psychology, Employment and Disability, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2006 , pp. 153-157(5)
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Abstract:
For a number of years the press has reported that the Government has been interested in putting employment advisers into General Practitioners' (GPs) surgeries. This sounds reasonable given the Government's Welfare to Work agenda that seeks to engage people on incapacity benefits in discussion about returning to work. Attempting to provide advice and guidance in the places that the target group frequent appears a good approach, but is it really a good idea? This paper examines some of the evidence of success, or otherwise, of advisory services delivered in Primary Health Care settings and attempts to elicit potential success factors and other issues around the creation of such a service.This review found that there is little in the way of concrete evidence of the effectiveness of employment services that operate out of GPs' surgeries. We can, however, extrapolate key success factors and other issues from other non-medical, advice-based services that are hosted in this way. This paper looks at journal articles, newspaper reports and presentational materials in order to piece together common themes that may be contributing to the success of these services.Keywords: EMPLOYMENT ADVISERS; EMPLOYMENT AND HEALTH; GP SURGERIES; OUTREACH SERVICES; PRIMARY CARE TEAMS
Document Type: Research article
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