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Workers’ compensation needs better health care – Part I

contributorDr 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.

Webinar recording: The Elephant in the room - too much medicine

contributorProfessor 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.

How do we walk back non-evidence-based medicine?

contributorGabrielle Lis

The road to the de-adoption of low value healthcare is littered with good intentions, backseat drivers, evidence, eminence and economics.

Webinar recording: Good healthcare - what is it and is your worker getting it?

contributorDr Mary Wyatt

In this webinar Dr Wyatt explores what constitutes good healthcare in work injury management and how you can recognise it.

Making the case for VBH

contributorGabrielle Lis

Seven potential benefits of value-based healthcare (VBH) in the context of workers’ compensation.

Introducing value-based healthcare

contributorGabrielle 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…)

Webinar recording:Recovery Blueprint: helping case managers help injured workers

contributorRoss 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.

Webinar recording: Implementing early screening to identify and manage at risk workers to prevent unnecessary work disability: Lessons from the WISE study

contributorProfessor Michael Nicholas

This webinar outlines the key learnings from the WISE study and the core components that made a major difference.

The Covid long haul

contributorGabrielle Lis

They call themselves the long-haulers – people who struggle with persistent symptoms months after “recovering” from Covid-19. How common is post-covid syndrome? What are the symptoms? How might it affect recovery and RTW?

Pain has a new meaning

contributorGabrielle Lis

A change to the definition of pain offered by a key international organisation could change treatment approaches - and improve outcomes - for people with chronic pain.

Webinar recording:Systematic approaches to identifying and addressing biopsychosocial barriers – the missing policy in RTW Part 1

contributorPam Garton PhD

In part 1 of 3, Pam Garton PhD gives us background on her research and discusses the identification of Psychosocial risk.

Webinar recording: Automated Manual Handling Risk Assessments: a benefit or a distraction?

contributorDavid Bick

Presented by David Bick of JointAction Solutions along with Michael Lawrence and Roscoe McCord during question time.