I would be happy to participate.

Kind regards
 
Nicky Johns  
 
Occupational Health Adviser
 
01656 302488

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Behalf Of Stuart Whitaker
Sent: 27 May 2008 12:17
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Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] Return to work after cancer treatment

Dear Collegues,

It is good to see 'occupational health' and issues to do with 'health
and 
work' being reported on the BBC News webpage as it all helps to raise
our 
profile.

The work that I am involved in with Macmillans, quoted in the BBC
article, 
aims to produce guidance on return to work strategies for people with a 
cancer diagnosis, but importantly to try to evaluate the effectiveness
of 
such guidelines in practice using a randomised controlled trial. 

Previous work carried out by Macmillans has highlighted the difficulties

people face in returning to work and currently we are writing up a paper

from a survey of occupational health physicians on their experiences, 
views, opinions on the management of employees with a cancer diagnosis. 

I would hope to be able to reproduce that survey with occupational
health 
nurses as their experience of the process may be significiantly
different 
to that of physicians. One of our difficulties in surveying OH nurses is

the absence of a well defined cohort (such as the SOM for physicians)
where 
we would have access to a comprensive list of nurses working in the
field. 
However, would members of this list be willing to participate in an
on-line 
survey ???

For many people there is simply no occupational health advice available
to 
them at the workplace, but hopefully these guidelines will go someway 
towards helping them return to work too.

Best wishes to all

Stuart

Dr. Stuart Whitaker
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Health
University of Cumbria.

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