Unum and Professor Dame Carol Black launch essay collection on work and health

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Leading experts on work, health and disability including Professor Dame Carol Black have written essays for a report, What next for health at work, published by Unum.

The collection launched in Parliament yesterday, marks the Five Year Anniversary of Professor Dame Carol Black and David Frost CBE's independent review of sickness absence for the government, Health at work.  Unum and Dame Carol invited many of the participants in the Black/Frost review plus some other influential voices to write an essay each on what more could be done to help people with health problems to reach their potential at work in the coming years.  The collection of eleven essays includes contributions from Stephen Bevan, Head of HR Research Development, Institute for Emplo...

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