A functional assessment is a key part of any occupational health consultation, yet effective history-taking is something many coming into the profession have to learn from scratch. Helena Brady looks ...

During a clinical assessment, a patient’s history can be the key to helping an OH professional decide if someone is fit for work or not. Greta Thornbory explains how best to conduct the process.

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

The assessment of an older person should cover, as a minimum, the five main domains of health, which include the functional domain. Functional health can be defined as the ability to perform self-care ...

The DWP's Health Transformation programme will see these benefits that require a functional health assessment rolled into a ‘single assessment’. The DWP is set to change the way Personal Independence ...

Liberal Democrat MP Steve Darling has urged the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “make an assessment of the potential merits of trialling automated recording of health assessment information ...