抄録
Fit For Work Service (FFWS) is a new occupational health delivery system in UK. The purpose of FFWS is to help people in the early stages of sickness absence to return to, and remain in, work more quickly after illness or when they develop a health condition or impairment. In UK the annual economic cost of sickness absence and worklessness among the working age is enormous reaching over £100 billion. FFW is expected to reduce this cost by supporting workers to continue to work. The core service is case management by multidisciplinary team composed by medical and social professionals. This service is very suggestive for the Japanese occupational health services in order to adapt to the highly ageing society. In this review, we outline the basic mechanism of FFWS and compare with the occupational health delivery system in Japan.
