20 July 2023 (issue 394)

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Changes to the Occupational Health Referral process

With effect from 1 August 2023, HR will be making health referrals directly into a new Occupational Health referral management system which should make things a little easier to navigate. There will be little or no change for managers who have asked us to refer a member of staff in the initial part of the process. However, once the member of staff has been seen by Occupational Health, they will alert HR who will access the report directly in the new system and at the same time the Occupational Health advisor will send a copy of the full report to the referring manager.

Occupational Health will remind you of your GDPR responsibilities in relation to this personal and sensitive data and will be changing the wording of staff consent to reflect this change in process. Please do not refer any queries on reports received back to Occupational Health and these will continue to be followed up between a manager, HR and the member of staff.