What is Occupational Health?
Occupational Medicine, or Occupational Health, is a branch of medicine that deals with the interaction between the employee's job activities, work environment and their health. The aim is to prevent or at least detect work-related injuries and illnesses early and assess the impact of the employee's health conditions on their ability to undertake work activities safely, i.e. fitness for work assessment.
What services do we provide?
Generally, employees are keen to remain at work for a combination of reasons. Ill-health retirement (IHR) is their last resort when their illness prevents them from remaining at work. However, sometimes they feel forced to apply for IHR because their employer cannot offer reasonable workplace adjustments to help them remain at work. While the employer is responsible for arranging an occupational health assessment to assess IHR criteria, there can be an imbalance and diverging expectations between the employee and employer. We address this imbalance by making it easier for the employees to access an expert, independent occupational health opinion on their IHR application via self-referral to our services.
We provide the following expert consultant occupational physician services directly to employees via self-referral. Employers can also request an independent ill-health retirement assessment via management referral.
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Ill-health retirement (IHR) assessment and report (Self-referral)
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Ill-health retirement (IHR) assessment and report (Management-referral)
