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Inspectors body expresses concern about status of HSE’s....
Inspectors body expresses concern about status of HSE’s Corporate Medical Unit
Prospect, the body that represents 1,750 HSE inspectors and scientists, is expressing its concerns about the possible outcome of a review being conducted that may, in its view, undermine government efforts to tackle work-related ill health through its strategic Health, Work and Well-being - Caring for our future.
The review may involve a further diminishing in strength of the HSE Corporate Medical Unit (formerly the Employment Medical Advisory Service) to around 7 doctors working as medical inspectors and 25 nurses, a sizable depletion in force from the 120 staff employed in the early 90's.
The Chair of Prospect’s HSE branch explains:
“The government wants to create workplaces where we both protect the health and well-being of employees and reduce the costs of sickness absence: at the same time they want to enable people to improve their own health and well- being. Yet these good intentions require action to become reality: the levels of activity funded to achieve this border on complacency.
Not only does the UK lag way behind the rest of Europe in occupational health provision; the parlous state of our occupational medicine facilities means the true size of the problem has been underestimated.” Read more at Prospect
23.01.07
