Hi All
Agree with Karen and Anne. Also once the company finds that they have to pay for all these GP reports, they may change their stance.
Our policy here is only to request external reports if it is likely to influence the advice we are going to offer to the employee and
manager or sometimes if the employee is a poor/vague historian and we need further detail.
Helen
Helen Parsons MSc RN SCPHN
Service Manager
Occupational Health
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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24 Love Walk
London
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Good advice from Pauline.
I would challenge why advice from GP or hospital specialist is an automatic expectation. Those professionals do not know the workplace, only have info from the patient, which may be incomplete and are likely to charge for the recommendations
they provide.
Hi Julie
send me your direct e-mail and I will send you the wording I use on my reports , it outlines the responsibility of the employer, i.e they have to make the decision on what is reasonable adjustment, you are just giving advice.
you can use evidence based practice to provide you advice - you can use specialist web pages, such as Royal college of physicians - on surgery with return to work periods, Im sure I have a list some where I will hunt this out.
Do you have a senior OHA or an OHP you have access to to support you with this?
I have been asked to start requesting supporting evidence for those employees requesting long term adjustments under DDA (not advanced to Equality Act yet!). Is this usual practice and how is it gathered (signed consent sent to GP/Specilaist
or does the employee request this info from GP/Specilaist)? Is there any evidence that this delays a return to work?
The manufacturing company I work for are trying to address the 7% sickness absence rate and are also trying to reduce the number of employees on long term adjustments (as it is impacting on business and has become unsustainable).
They have a very risk averse legal team so those with regular and extensive absences have not been dismissed, this is especially true for those where DDA is likely to apply.
I am new to this list so apologies if I am asking the bleedin' obvious.
J
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