News
The latest information from DWP that relates to you and your patients – including additions to the DWP health and work pages.
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance replaced Incapacity Benefit for new customers from 27 October 2008. Find out how it affects you.
- Detailed information for healthcare professionals – Employment and Support Allowance (DWP health and work)
- Overview for advisers, healthcare professionals and others – Employment and Support Allowance (ESA pages)
What’s new
| 25/11/08 | Improving health and work: changing lives, published on 25 November 2008, is the Government’s response to Working for a Healthier Tomorrow, Dame Carol Black’s Review of the health of Britain’s working age population.
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| 16/10/08 | Employment and Support Allowance Medical Reports – A Guide to Completion. |
| 28/07/08 | Royal College of Surgeons of England launch consensus-based return to work guidance for some of the most common surgical procedures.
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| 25/07/08 | This new DWP health and work site launched. |
| 17/03/08 | Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s working age population published.
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