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RTW: from policy to practice. An imperative for change and call to action

Lauren Finestone

An important policy paper — It pays to care — calls for a conversation about, and action on, how we can work together to improve health and recovery outcomes and reduce the barriers to care for people with work injuries.

In April the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) launched its policy on the design of work injury schemes — It pays to care.  Professor Alex Collie from Monash University says the release of this policy is ‘a really important moment in working injury scheme design and management in Australia’. The policy calls for a conversation about, and action on, how all the players in our injury in...

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Published 19 June, 2022 | Updated 21 June, 2022