FOM Winter conference 2008 - How should occupational health be delivered nationally in the 21st century?

This conference took place in December 2008.

Dame Carol Black’s recent review lays the ground for a major expansion and refocusing of occupational health services nationally. As we work to build on the momentum this has generated, we need a clear vision of the ways in which occupational health care will best be delivered nationally in the 21st century. The aim of this meeting was to help inform that vision. Powerpoint presentations can be accessed when avilable via the presentation title. Audio recordings are available below.

• Introduction - Professor David Coggon
• Session 1 - Effective provision for the control of occupational hazards - Professor Sayeed Khan, Chief Medical Adviser, EEF - the manufacturers' organisation
• Session 2 - Minimising long-term sickness absence and health-related incapacity for work: Evidence from DWP-funded research - Dr Bill Gunnyeon, Chief Medical Adviser, Department for Work and Pensions
• Session 3 - Unmet needs - current provision of occupational health care in the UK - Dr David Snashall, Immediate Past-President, Faculty of Occupational Medicine
• Session 4 - OH Services for small employers and their staff - Dr Ewan Macdonald, Head, Healthy Working Lives Research Group, University of Glasgow
• Session 5 - In-house or externally contracted occupational health services? - Dr Paul Litchfield, Chief Medical Officer, Head of Health & Safety, BT Group plc
• Session 6 - How robust is the evidence that work benefits health? - Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor, Head of National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College
• Session 7 - Visions for the future - Professor Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work and Dr Kit Harling, Director, NHS Plus
• Session 8 - Discussion; closing remarks - Professor David Coggon, President, Faculty of Occupational Medicine