Occupational health specialists in primary care: up-to-date with changing times?

Abstract

Primary care practitioners need to be unified, collaborating to continually improve access to care for all our patients, while maintaining our own traditions of expertise. The Health, Work and Wellbeing agenda1 set by Dame Carol Black in 2005 aims to guide the jobless into sustained employment while also maintaining the health of those currently in employment. How can we provide the occupational health expertise required to support and develop this agenda, locally? I …