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Effective communication, whether speaking or listening, is an important part of successful return to work. Whether communicating with the worker, treater, claims manager, senior management or coworkers, our helpful articles will help build the skills required to improve outcomes.
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Lauren Finestone
A UK study highlights the important role that supervisors, senior managers and workplace culture play in how well workers do when they return to work after being on sick leave.
RTWMatters team
This 4 minute video features Dr Mary Wyatt and is an excerpt from our series of 20 elearning modules.
Lauren Finestone
A study suggests some basic conditions are needed for achieving ‘easy’ collaboration between stakeholders supporting people RTW.
Rhea Mercado
Rhea Mercado of The Intelligent Rebellion delivers an engaging webinar that explores the elements of trust in medical case conferences. Learn practical strategies and messages to build a collaborative and trusting relationship with doctors and workers, es
RTWMatters team
Ten reasons to share the key messages from It Pays To Care with everyone who works with workers’ compensation claimants.
Lauren Finestone
An important message for healthcare providers to give injured workers is that inactivity is more risky than moving.
Lauren Finestone
Anne’s story compares how positive and negative messages about the body have a huge impact on how they recover from back pain (or not).
Lauren Finestone
Five suggestions for how clinicians can shift the conversation from an ‘impairment’ to a ‘participatory-based’ approach to osteoarthritis.
Lauren Finestone
Clinicians and people with knee osteoarthritis can shift the conversation about osteoarthritis from an ‘impairment-based‘ conversation to a ‘participatory-based’ one.
Lauren Finestone
How we talk about health profoundly impacts how we think and act when managing our well-being.
Lauren Finestone
Four experts discuss the idea of ‘good work’ and how collaboration can achieve better outcomes for injured workers.
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
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.
