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Four experts discuss the idea of ‘good work’ and how collaboration can achieve better outcomes...
When injured workers reflect on their workers' comp claims experience, it's how their claims...
The Commonwealth Ombudsman’s investigation into Comcare’s management of IMEs addresses reports...
Independent medical examinations are a healthcare issue that contributes to poorer outcomes for...
Independent medical examinations are one of many factors in our compensation system that can...
John McMahon, Director of Science at Navigator Group, discusses their Navigator Support Program...
What challenges do RTW Coordinators face? And what training and other needs do they have to do...
An innovative technology-supported model of rehabilitation takes remote therapy to another...
The new Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard aims to make sure patients with this common...
Telerehabilitation on pain and disability in patients with spine pain achieved more improvement...
In this Q&A session, Mary Wyatt interviews ReturnToWorkSA Employer Education Advisor, Houda...
In a study, one in 4 workers with long-duration workers compensation claims moved onto...
Senior management teams can be ‘psychosocial safety climate’ engineers.
Is the concept of ‘Above all, do no harm’ relevant to our workers compensation schemes?
Workers get the bad press, but other scheme participants behave in ways that are unethical. This...
Regulators can constructively influence our work injury scheme through encouragement, engagement...
A new approach to manage chronic musculoskeletal needs many scheme participants to commit to a...
Three union advocates give us their insights into the factors that can help improve RTW outcomes...
Tatjana Jokic talks us through the aims, implementation and outcomes of a successful pilot...
A Griffith University study seeks injured workers and personnel involved in determination of the...
Practical suggestions for how physiotherapists and other healthcare practitioners can provide...
In Part 1 we introduced IRRI — WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives. In this...
RTW practices are a team sport. WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives show...
Patients are encouraged to ‘self-manage’ their chronic pain conditions. But there are external...
10 common and unhelpful myths about low back pain, and 10 facts that bust them.
A ‘recovering interventional spine physiatrist’ makes the case for spine clinicians paying more...
What do we know about how workers access, understand and engage with information about workers...
Dr Mary Wyatt introduces the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's...
The ‘Principles on the role of the GP in supporting worker participation’ provide guidance to...
A partnership between researchers and a workers compensation insurer (WorkCover Queensland) is...
General practitioners clearly play a critical role and we ask them to do a lot in a complex...
In our ongoing quest to find ways to translate research into practice in our work injury...
Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve how we care for workers is not easy. Are...
Evidence-based strategies for organisations to support employees across the full spectrum of...
Our standard pathway of care in injury management leads to low value care and...
The 'It Pays to Care' report calls for change in our work injury schemes, but recognises that...
An important policy paper — It pays to care — calls for a conversation about, and action on, how...
There are 11 work-related factors that employers must identify and manage to prevent mental...
Tips to help develop a mindset that builds resilience and helps us deal with challenging...
In this webinar, Jennifer Fry, Director of WorkWell at WorkSafe Victoria, shares free tools and...