CWH Business Plan History

CWH Business Plan History

Strategy 1 - To provide employers/employees with tools to manage health
Project: Guidance for employers on communication with general practitioners / Project: Provide links from the website on tools/
information provided by member organisations / Activity: Provide input into good practice guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as a public health stakeholder
Working Group:
Lead: John Chisholm
Members: Rob Hampton Richard Jones, Nicola Hunter, Leonie Dawson, Tom Stewart, Henry Goodall, Mandy Kelly and Diana Kloss / N/A / N/A
Scope of Work:
1.  Guidance for employers on communication with
GPs
2.  IOSH sponsored study to test the usability/
acceptability of standardised employer to GP
communication April/May 2013, via the Leicester
Fit for Work Team
3.  To work with DWP to develop an advisory AHP
fitness to work report / Scope of Work:
1.  Member organisations to identify suitable tools and provide links for the website
2.  Link to national campaigns
3.  Link to policy, reports or position statements / Scope of Work:
1.  Comment on draft guidance and evidence
reviews
2.  Suggest additional relevant evidence if a
call for evidence is made
3.  Review the stakeholder list and suggest
other relevant organisations that may be
interested in contributing to the guidance
Outcomes:
1.  Report received on recruitment of 10 companies
representing 58,550 employees. DWP guidance
notes - individual responses on guidance for GPs
launched March 2014
2.  Report and presentation pending
3.  DWP launches AHP Advisory Service fitness to
work report in England in March 2013, Wales in
June 2013, Scotland in Oct 2013 / Outcomes:
1)  a. Information received by the HSE on examples
of the intervention mix to various health
b. Links on the website from member
organisations updated and “find a professional”
inserted
2)  IOSH “No time to lose” campaign
3)  BPS Division of Occupational Psychology’s (DOP)
Policy report. “Implementing NHS Culture Change
Contributions from Occupational Psychology” –
launch Nov. 2014 / Outcomes:
1.  Registered as stakeholder
2.  Next guidance - Workplace policy and
practice on promoting the health of older
workers: adaptations to extend working
lives and preparing for retirement: physical
activity
3.  Workshop on breast cancer and shift work
September 2014
Strategy 2 - To provide signposting for other health professionals on how to obtain competent advice and support on work and health
issues for people under their care
Project: Training and qualifications
for occupational health
nurses / Project: Training and qualifications for
Occupational Health / Activity: Collegiate working in Council / Project: Helpful advice and links
Working Group:
Lead: Helen Kirk
Members: Ann Harriss, Karen Talbot,
Christina Butterworth / Lead: Chair of Council / Lead: Board of Directors / N/A
Scope of Work:
1.  Produce a Council paper on the
training and qualification for
occupational health nurses and
the knowledge and skills needed
for UK plc now and in the future
2.  Engage with the Chief Nursing
Officer and the Nursing and
Midwifery Council on the Council
paper / Scope of Work:
1.  Hold an Education Workshop with Health Education England to discuss Occupational Health
training / Scope of Work:
1.  Develop a series of presentations from member organisations in order to share strategies / Scope of Work:
1.  Signposting to useful websites, research and information from
member organisations
Outcomes:
1.  Paper published in Occupational
Medicine September 2012
2.  Consultation on the development
of National School of
Occupational Health –
established October 2014. Chair
and Deputy Chair appointed to
the Board. Next meeting 30th
January 2015
3.  Meeting with HEE to discuss
Shape of Care consultation on
nurse training – August 2014.
HEE report Investing in People
launched December 2014 / Outcomes:
1.  Multi-disciplinary OH education event – CWH and NSOH 9th March 2015 / Outcomes:
1.  OH topic presentation Feb. 2015
2  Presentation May 2015
3  IOSH presentation October 2015
4  Human centred approach to an organisation presentation Sept 14
5  FOM/SOM collaboration Sept 2014
6  BPS Presentation May 2014
7  NHS Health at Work Network presentation Feb 14
8  BOHS presentation May 2013 / Outcomes:
1.  Signposting to the HSE website on the duty under certain legislation on health surveillance requirements
2.  ACPOHE – Functional Capacity Evaluation Guideline
Strategy 3 - To develop and promote consistent professional standards and develop common educational initiatives
Project: Training and qualifications for allied health professionals / Project: Developing a College/Academy for Workplace
Health / Project: Quality standards:
Lead: Each member organisation listed in the scope
of work / Working Group:
Lead: Olivia Carlton
Members: Karen Talbot, Helen Kirk, Malcolm
Adams, Roger Aylesbury, Jan Vickery,
Diana Kloss / N/A
Scope of Work:
1.  AHPF development of the AHPF Advisory Fitness to Work Report
2.  ACPOHE developed competency framework for physiotherapists specialising in OH
3.  BAOT working on mapping on the AHP Occupational Health Framework to map the framework against Curriculum Framework and Post Qualification Framework: inform post registration learning requirements / Scope of Work:
1.  Develop a Council paper
2.  Develop a scope of work for the Project / Scope of Work:
1.  SEQQHS review
Outcomes:
1.  Launched in England in March 2013. Launch in Wales June 2013 and Scotland in October 2013
2.  Competency framework for physiotherapists published June 2013 and available on ACPOHE website / Outcomes:
1.  Meeting to consider the creation of a College of Occupational Medicine – a single national deanery. Health Education England in favour of the creation of a multi-disciplinary body. Meeting with the DWP on 20th June, it was stated that the Department of Health was supportive of multi-disciplinary training
2.  On hold: awaiting outcomes of workforce planning, single organisation and national school projects / Outcomes:
1.  Review of SEQOHS standards – meeting with FOM in April 2014 then CWH to be invited to provide comment. Physio pilots completed September and report to FOM October 2014. Update to CWH February 2015
Strategy 4 - To respond to consultations collectively and make the opportunity available to members
Project: Manage and disseminate consultations to
members / Project: Manage and disseminate consultations via OH
nurses network
Lead: Each member organisation listed in the scope
of work / Steering Committee:
Lead: Hilary Todd
Members: Christina Butterworth, Helen Kirk, Judith
Howard-Rees, Elizabeth Griffiths, Carol
Miller, Vanessa Hebditch, Kathleen
Codling
Scope of Work:
1.  Black/Frost Report
2.  Health and Work Service
3.  Protocol for responding to consultations:
·  Chair to respond on behalf of CWH
·  Council members requested to comment
·  Board of Directors agrees response
·  Council publish response from Council and members website
4.  OH Workforce of the future / Scope of Work:
1.  Set up a steering committee to manage the network
2.  Set the terms of reference
3.  Monitor activity and produce annual report
4.  Re-branded, new name “OH Nurse Connect” and website
5.  CWH to provide oversight and governance
Outcomes:
1.  Council response delivered. Letter to Lord Freud. Meeting with Bill Gunnyeon to discuss Frost/Black report and Work Capability Assessment Centres
2.  DWP Stakeholder Meeting attended by the Chair who reported to Council. Bill Gunnyeon reported to Council on 24.09.13. NB invited to be part of an Advisory Board.
3.  Agreed at CWH meeting Feb 2014
4.  Member and wider stakeholder surveys October and December 2014 / Outcomes:
1.  Steering committee and TOR defined
3.  To remain in SOM and reporting to CWH – update September 2014
Strategy 5 - To develop the Council into a dynamic, robust and viable group working to a common purpose
Project: Setting up and managing the
CWH as a company limited
by guarantee / Project: Occupational Health
Workforce Planning / Project: Communication Plan / Project: Operational Excellence
Working Group:
Board of Directors / Working Group:
Lead: John Harrison
Members: Richard Heron, Keith
Johnstone, Christina
Butterworth, Roger
Aylesbury, Leonie Dawson,
Tom Stewart, Emma
Donaldson-Fielder, Julia
Skelton, Mike Goldsmith / Lead: Board of Directors (NF and HT
to lead off this area) / Lead: Board of Directors
Scope of Work:
1.  Set up company and elect a Board of Directors
2.  Develop the Terms of Reference and role descriptions for the Board
3.  Set up financial management arrangements
4.  Include for Conflict of interest
5.  Principles of Governance
6.  Fund raising
7.  Review and refine Council Strategy / Scope of Work:
Set up a Working Group to define the
Project deliverables and progress
along the stages:-
Stage 1 – Define the scope, ways of
working and outcomes
Stage 2 – Define the population and
assess the needs
Stage 3-6 – defined by stages 1-2 / Scope of Work:
1.  Develop a communication plan and implement programme
2.  Website development – quarterly report
3.  Develop a QR code for use in publications and at exhibitions / Scope of Work:
1.  Marketing
2.  Representation on other professional bodies
3.  Representation at events
Outcomes:
1.  Approved Constitution and Registered Company
2.  Completed June 2013
3.  Independent accountant required by October 2014
4.  Document drafted June 2013
5.  Document drafted 2013
6.  Appeal for financial contribution letter sent to Council Member organisations August 2013
2nd letter for financial contribution sent to member organisations December 2014
7.  Draft revision of being developed for consultation with Council members. Business Plan to compliment DWP plan – letter sent / Outcomes:
Report provided for Phase 1 (stages 1&2), presented to Council and approved February 2014.
Stage 3 Stakeholder and expert workshop planned 15.04.14 – report due September 2014
Stage 4-6 plan agreed
Chair of Council seeking additional funding from DWP Conference scheduled for Spring 2015 / Outcomes:
1.  To be developed for 2015
2.  TS appointed website co-ordinator. Website updated Sept. 2013
3.  Developed February 2014 / Outcomes:
1.  Letter to Safety Management about the work of the CWH from the Chair.
Development of information leaflet and promotion at Health, Work and Wellbeing Conference March 2015
2.  Diana appointed to NICE Public Health Advisory Committee
3.  Members of the Council and Board spoke about the Council at many events as follows (LIST HERE), Westminster employers forum
Consultations
The Council responds to consultations directly or through individual member organisations
Date / Comments
Consultations on behalf of CWH
NICE: Workplace policy and management practices to improve the health of employees - Consultation on the Draft Scope / Jul-13
Consultations on behalf of member organisations
Responded to NMC consultation on revalidation. / Mar-14 / AOHNP
NMC consultation on the Code / Aug-14 / AOHNP