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RTWMatters team
Practical advice for accommodating non-infectious workers with persistent Covid symptoms during RTW. Plus information about Covid-19 transmission and indoor ventilation.
RTWMatters team
Progressive think-tank The Australia Institute has released a report that quantifies the costs of poor workplace mental health.
Gabrielle Lis
Patient / treater rapport, emotional validation and education backed by experiences that demonstrate the truth of what has been learned bring long-term benefits to patients with back pain, according to spine expert Dr Donald Murphy. Do GPs have the skills
Gabrielle Lis
Doctors and allied health professionals aiming to avoid over-treatment can actually make things worse for patients with back pain by offering reassurance that fails to reassure, according to spine care specialist Dr Donald Murphy.
Wendy Ng & Tim Mitchell
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Wendy Ng & Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Tim Mitchell address the issue of the implementation of patient-centered care into clinical practice
Dr Mary Wyatt
Positive change may be inspired by centers of excellence and everyday positivity emulated by treating practitioners.
Dr Mary Wyatt
Dr Wyatt explains how problems with agency, explanation deficits, delays and disputes, over-medicalisation and failure to deal with distress and whole, complex people (rather than just their medical problems) derail health outcomes in workers' comp.
Professor Peter O'Sullivan
Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Professor Peter O'Sullivan from Curtin University, discusses why current approaches do not improve outcomes and examines what needs to change.
Gabrielle Lis
The road to the de-adoption of low value healthcare is littered with good intentions, backseat drivers, evidence, eminence and economics.
Dr Mary Wyatt
In this webinar Dr Wyatt explores what constitutes good healthcare in work injury management and how you can recognise it.
Gabrielle Lis
Seven potential benefits of value-based healthcare (VBH) in the context of workers’ compensation.
Gabrielle Lis
Efficient, evidence-based and directed by what matters to patients: what’s not to like about value-based healthcare? (A lot, if you ask some spinal surgeons…)
Ross Iles
The Recovery Blueprint project is a partnership between Monash University and WorkCover Queensland with the aim of introducing evidence-based risk identification to workers compensation case management in Queensland.
Professor Michael Nicholas
This webinar outlines the key learnings from the WISE study and the core components that made a major difference.
