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Flexible working to promote barrier-free policies for people with mental health conditions?
12th July 2010
Implementing reasonable adjustments like flexible working hours could help people with mental health conditions remain in work.
This is according to Dr Clive Morgan who said, while speaking to Wales Online, that later starting times or barrier-free policies to facilitate medical appointments might enable some sufferers to "make an excellent recovery".
He added: "Small changes ... can often help and encourage people to remain in work or get them back to work ... This sort of reasonable adjustment can make a world of difference."
Dr Morgan pointed out that ten per cent of Brits will experience some type of depression in any given year.
Bringing in these options to people who might benefit could ultimately help organisations retain skills and expertise without having to recruit and train new staff, the publication concluded.
Backing up this claim is Dr Rachel Perkins from South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust.
She told Public Service Review that some people with mental health conditions (40 per cent) have been advised they would never work again.
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