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Stephen Bevan
Director, Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, The Work Foundation (UK) Honorary Professor, Lancaster University, UK Founding President, Fit for Work Europe Coalition
Over 40m EU workers have MSDs Major & growing impact on productivity, labour market participation & social inclusion as the workforce ages & health spending is scrutinised
Sustainability?
Across the EU, only 3% of health spending is devoted to Prevention with over 70% of spending now on chronic illness, this is unsustainable Early intervention for people of working age with chronic conditions such as MSDs can be a form of prevention which ensures patients pay rather than consume tax However, early diagnosis & treatment is still too slow Too many clinicians fail to consider Work as a clinical outcome Social Security systems are poor at supporting people with chronic conditions to remain in work Employers need to play a part too.
If early interventions can reduce temporary work disability by 25% the equivalent of an extra 640k EU workers would be available for work each day If TWD was reduced by 39% this figure rises to 1 million additional workers each day
Invest to Save
By 2030 up to 45% of the EU workforce will have a long-term or chronic health condition which will affect their productivity Are we just going to wait for them all to get ill so we can then make them better or keep them functional, at massive cost? Joined-up, coordinated, cross-government action with a preventative focus and an Investment mindset is desperately needed Every Minister is a Health Minister
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