The EASY (Early Access to Support for You) sickness absence service: a four-year evaluation of the impact on absenteeism

• Main Authors: Judith Brown (Author), Daniel Mackay (Author), Evangelia Demou (Author), Joyce Craig (Author), John Frank (Author), Ewan B Macdonald (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: In May 2008, the National Health Service (NHS) Lanarkshire (NHSL) implemented a unique telephone-based sickness absence management service entitled "EASY" (Early Access to Support for You). The EASY service supplements existing absence policies and enables telephone communicati...