Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) for mental health services are increasingly being treated as a frontline emergency service, research from the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA UK) found.
The association surveyed 19 EAP providers and found services are now available to 24.5 million employees working across more than 105,000 organisations, compared to 4.9 million employees with access across 3,139 organisations 20 years ago. According to the The Holding it together: UK mental wellbeing and the role of Employee Assistance Programmes report, EAPs for mental health services have now been implemented for 75% of the UK workforce, jumping 60% from only 15% of the workforce in 2003. However, EAPs are now involved with more complex, long-term cases of mental illness, EAPA UK st...
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