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Occupational Medicine 2000;50:251-257
© 2000 Society of Occupational Medicine

Healthy Workplace Indicators: Costing Reasons for Sickness Absence within the UK National Health Service

P. Verow and C. Hargreaves

Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust West Bromwich, UK

Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust has been developing a tool for monitoring the reasons and costs of long-term sick leave (>7 days). The data obtained from this process has been used to modify the type of occupational health and safety services provided for the Trust. Adoption of more standardized tools of this nature throughout the National Health Service (NHS) would help trusts to compare, and where appropriate enhance, the services provided by occupational health. Musculo-skeletal and mental health problems, account for the greatest costs arising from long-term sickness absence. It may therefore be prudent for NHS employers and their occupational health services to target their efforts on these particular problems.

Keywords      Health indicators; sickness absence costs; sickness absence reasons

Received       17 November 1999
Accepted        8 March 2000

Correspondence to: Dr Peter G. Verow, Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust, Occupational Health and Safety Unit, 30 Hallam Close, West Bromwich B71 4HU, UK. Tel: (+44) 0121 607 3417; fax: (+44) 0121 607 3420. e-mail: peter.verow{at}swellhot.wmids.nhs.uk


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