Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, 11th November 2025 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm AEDT
RTW Matters and It Pays to Care are truisms. No obvious that they shouldn’t even need stating. Yet they hide layers of complexity and questions:
Why does return to work matter?
Who does it matter to?
Why don’t people return to work when we think they should?
Why does it pay to care?
Why are we getting it so badly wrong?
What if we’re not seeing the whole person behind the absence statistic? That they feel that rehabilitation is being done to them, not for them. That psychosocial factors are putting them in a fear state. The answer, according to Dr David, is a new approach to the practice of medicine, called Positive Medicine.
Dr David Beaumont is the author of the award-winning book Positive Medicine: Disrupting the Future of Medical Practice.
He is a Consultant Occupational Physician, a doctor who specialises in the health of workers. He supports a number of major New Zealand employers and insurers. He is a former President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) and Deputy Chair of the Member Health and Wellbeing Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
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