Job advisers may be posted in NHS hospitals to get long-term sick back to work
by Jem Bartholomew from World news | The Guardian on (#6R6P4)
Disability charity says Labour plan must not become punitive measure exacerbating culture of mistrust and fear'
Employment advisers are to be stationed in NHS hospitals under plans from Labour to push people on long-term sickness leave back into work, as one disability charity warned the proposal must not become a punitive" measure.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, are understood to want to expand a model in use at the Maudsley psychiatric hospital in south London, which deploys employment support such as job-seeking, CV writing and interview training.
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