A NEW Online vista tech support site for GPs and businesses has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government.
Healthy Working Wales promotes healthy working practices and offers advice on how best to manage and recover at work if any health issues do arise.
The new website will bring together a number of initiatives, including Workboost Wales, Welsh Backs and the Corporate Health Standard, providing easy access to information, advice and support on a broad range of workplace health issues.
The website will also host a new pilot programme providing GPs with access to online resources on health and work issues.
The programme will provide Online vista support for GPs to access occupational health advice for their patients.
The Health & Safety Executive estimates that 30 million working days are lost each year due to work- related ill health. Sickness absence and associated worklessness costs £100bn a year in the UK.
Dr Tony Jewell, Wales’ chief medical officer for Wales said: “Ensuring that we are able to lead healthy working lives is as much our responsibility as our employers’.
“Unfortunately, not all ill health can be prevented but we can better Online vista tech support people to help them stay in work.
“The accessibility and convenience of an information resource like Healthy Working Wales is invaluable and will provide individuals, employers and health professionals with access to advice that may help prevent long-term conditions from developing.
“For GPs the pilot project will provide access to the most up-to-date information, and the expertise of professionals trained specifically to help find solutions for people with health and work issues. This is an innovative approach to providing advice on health and work issues and I’m pleased that it has been developed here in Wales.”
Source: walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/07/online-support-site-for-doctors-91466-21272016/
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