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Delays in Return to Work What Can Be Done?

Delays in Return to Work What Can Be Done?. What is Workplace Rehabilitation? Factors Affecting Return to Work What Can Be Done?. What is Workplace Rehabilitation?. Accredited Providers Safe, Sustainable Return to Work Strategies When to Refer. What is Workplace Rehabilitation?.

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Delays in Return to Work What Can Be Done?

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  1. Delays in Return to Work What Can Be Done?

  2. What is Workplace Rehabilitation? • Factors Affecting Return to Work • What Can Be Done?

  3. What is Workplace Rehabilitation? • Accredited Providers • Safe, Sustainable Return to Work • Strategies • When to Refer

  4. What is Workplace Rehabilitation? • Accreditation • Service standards • Qualification • Performance Measurement

  5. Factors Affecting Return to Work • Work absence • Delay to referral • Stakeholders

  6. General Practitioner • Position of Power • Family GP • Need to be fully fit • Lack of evidence based treatment • Unfamiliar with: • WC system/processes • Occupational medicine • Other treating professionals

  7. Employer • Lack of Injury management systems • Workplace culture to WC • Performance Incentives • Relationship breakdown • Scepticism • Lack of resources • Lack of knowledge • Inappropriate RTW goal

  8. Injured Worker • Relationship with employer • Job satisfaction • Personality profile • Beliefs about injury/pain • Family Situation • Stigma attached to claim • Mental health • Substance abuse

  9. Lawyers • Delay RTW • Block Case Conferences • Change WRP

  10. Workplace Rehabilitation Provider • Unclear goal • Delayed service delivery • Lack of communication • Reactive • Passive • Buying into Psycho-social barriers • Work trials

  11. What Can Be Done?General Practitioner • Workers compensation training • Involvement in Case Conferences • Independent Medical Opinion • Peer reviews • Review Medical Certificates

  12. Employer • Knowledge and Education • Claims experience/Premium • Corporate commitment • Healthy Workplace culture • Flexibility to accommodate RTW • Review Performance Incentives

  13. Individual • Early intervention • Bio-psychosocial approach • Address Barriers to RTW • Include individual in process • Return to work expectation • Communication • Compliance

  14. Lawyers • Accreditation • Compel attendance at Case Conference • Review change of WRP

  15. Workplace Rehabilitation Provider • Develop a Relationship • Clear goal • Timely service delivery • Proactive case management • Communication • Psycho-social approach

  16. Keys to driving success • Corporate Commitment • Early intervention • Bio-psychosocial approach • Proactive case management • Collaboration and transparency planning RTW • Communication+++ • Treating Practitioner Education

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