Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support members of the NHS workforce affected by long-term illness.

NHS England have developed a range of support for National Health Service staff who are suffering from long-term illness, including access to Occupational Health and Wellbeing services, local Employee Assistance programmes and a range of health and wellbeing offers through the national support programme.

NHS England have published a ‘Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing Together’ strategy. The strategy sets out a roadmap for the NHS and partner organisations to work together to develop and invest in Occupational health and wellbeing services for NHS staff over the next five years.

NHS Employers have also published a range of guidance for managers on how to support employees with long-term health conditions, which is available at the following link:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/long-term-health-conditions