While we have all done our various occupational health courses via our medical schools, I am sure that most of us regard the subject from the point of view of an employee and whether our patient is fit to return to the type of work that they were accustomed to doing. Have we stopped to consider the situation when our patient is self-employed or runs a micro-business (defined by the European Union as having between one and nine employees)?
With contributions from the 200 000-strong Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Public Health Resource Unit, with input from the Health and Safety Executive, the …