Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

National Employment and Health Innovations Network

This network provides regular opportunities for innovators and policy makers to meet to exchange ideas, experience and evidence covering the whole field of health and work.

It is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions and supported by the Department of Health, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Government. The network is lead by Bob Grove.

Meetings are free. Members keep in touch with cutting edge developments in the field and each other through this network.

If you are:

• an employer wanting to improve your business by creating a healthier workforce,
• a civil servant responsible for policy at local or national level looking for an evidence base on what works,
• a social entrepreneur running a scheme which could revolutionalise health at work or opportunities for people at risk of exclusion,
• or a radical clinician interested in improving the management of health conditions for people of working age

then this network is an essential forum for sharing your work, your ideas and your problems.

Contacts

To join the network, email your details to jenni.bacon@scmh.org.uk to be added to the email list. If you have any questions, you can call her on 020 7827 8302.

If you'd like to contact other members, please forward your message to Jenni and she will forward it to the list.

The Aims of the Network

The network aims to:

• provide opportunities to share good practice and innovation in promoting health and tackling ill-health in the workplace; and reducing health inequalities through creating employment opportunities;
• support the implementation of innovative projects and programmes by designing learning opportunities around key themes linking their work to Government policy objectives in employment, regeneration, reduction of health inequalities and social inclusion.
• support the dissemination of evidence and good practice, and its integration into the mainstream modernisation agenda