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Lauren Finestone
Patients are encouraged to ‘self-manage’ their chronic pain conditions. But there are external and personal factors that will either help or hinder their ability to do this. And healthcare practitioners are one of the main external factors. So
Lauren Finestone
10 common and unhelpful myths about low back pain, and 10 facts that bust them.
Lauren Finestone
A ‘recovering interventional spine physiatrist’ makes the case for spine clinicians paying more attention to what patients know and say about their low back pain.
Lauren Finestone
General practitioners clearly play a critical role and we ask them to do a lot in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders. What is their experience of the work injury insurance system in Australia?
Lauren Finestone
In our ongoing quest to find ways to translate research into practice in our work injury schemes, we ask ‘What we can learn from complexity thinking?
Lauren Finestone
Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve how we care for workers is not easy. Are there things we can do in our organisations to create the conditions that support ‘organisational readiness for change?
Sajani Fernando
Evidence-based strategies for organisations to support employees across the full spectrum of mental health in the workplace
Lauren Finestone
Our standard pathway of care in injury management leads to low value care and over-investigation, over-diagnosis and over-treatment. Dr Mary Wyatt, Occupational Physician, presents ideas to bridge the gap between current practice and the evidence-base.
Lauren Finestone
The 'It Pays to Care' report calls for change in our work injury schemes, but recognises that change is hard, even when we know what we need to do. One model that looks at ‘organisational readiness for change’ may help us.
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.
Jennifer Fry
In this webinar, Jennifer Fry, Director of WorkWell at WorkSafe Victoria, shares free tools and resources to help you build a positive and mentally healthy workplace.
Lauren Finestone
How can we better to identify and support workers who are risk of developing secondary psychological conditions, and prevent them from occurring in the first place?
Mel Novak
Small business owners have been doing it tough for a long time and statistics are demonstrating higher levels of psychological distress within this community.
Dr Nick Ford & John Schumann
‘Real stories from real cops’—how to recognise and reduce the impact of psychological hazards on police
