Occupational Health for Staff
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Do you have any provision for your staff regarding occupational health? If so, what sort of organisation do you use, what is offered and what / how do you pay – per item, a retainer or how does it work? I would also be interested to see how many practices don't provide this, or is it generally the done thing?
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This provision is available to us through NHS England, free of charge. I would suggest you contact them to see if the same in your area.
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We don’t use occupation health as there is no funding and it works out really expensive. We have been advised and follow the protocols for needle stick injuries etc. to be referred straight to A&E, which we have done and the service provided was fine.
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We have all staff members registered with Occupational Health at Dronfield. It costs £69 per employee per year, and our bosses pay for it.
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Yes we provide a full OH service via the PCTs (NHS England now) provider for our area. We have a small NHS contract so we have access to it. It is free for us.
We have also made links with our local GP and the local travel centre…. this is our back-up plan in case the NHS route goes pear shaped.
We have used the travel centre once for Hep B Vaccine (very quick so person could start hands on instead of waiting for the OH visit). Each visit cost us about £45 they needed 4 visits in all.
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I think the provision no matter whether it is NHS or PVT is crucial in case you end up with a sharps injury or for your H&S provision?
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We are a mixed NHS/Private practice and therefore Grampian occupational health will only cover needle stick injuries free of charge, all other services such as Hep B vaccinations, and any screening is charged for.
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As a mixed practice, we have the option of NHS occupational health facility.
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We use the occupational health dept at our local hospital, this in our case is Macclesfield general. They do injections for new staff and hep b boosters .Tb, no charge as working within NHS also they can offer counselling if need be regarding hep b
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For over 10 years we have used our local Occupational Health Team for screening new employees and carrying out Hep B vaccinations. It’s only in the past year or so that it’s become a chargeable procedure. All treatment carried out is charged per course of treatment, per person, and we are invoiced accordingly.
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Quite a lot of GP practices offer this service so worth speaking to a larger practice nearby.
We have implant centres dotted around the UK so it can be area specific.
In all cases it is charged on a “pay as you go” basis rather than charging for the facility.
As far as CQC are concerned EVERY dental practice should already have this in place!
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We are a private referral clinic and as such cannot access any of the NHS such as the local Ace.
I have a private contract with the local hospital health and wellbeing for which I can send for inoculations, needle stick injuries, counselling and physical therapy for back neck etc.
These services are on a pay as we go type contract and form part of our CQC responsibilities for staff health and wellbeing.
There should be some form of reduced cost or access if you have an NHS contract for services locally.
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We pay per item and use our local hospitals OH resources.
Have used them for inoculations, medical assessments for long term absence, etc.
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We have enjoyed their services free of charge up until now… However apparently this may be changing from April, although no one seems to know anything at the moment. Not sure if that helps at all.
January 2014
