Playing catch-up

The Government's latest goal of getting a million incapacity benefit claimants back to work within a decade will undoubtedly increase awareness of the importance of rehabilitation. However, if we want to catch up with our counterparts in the US, Australia and other parts of Europe and start reducing workplace absence costs, it is essential that we embrace rehabilitation. Research by the London International Reinsurance Market Association in the late 1990s found that the UK lagged behind other industrialised countries in its long-term treatment of injuries. Highlights The study hi...