Report: Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
Key findings
- Strategic mental health pathways must be created and used to normalise people’s experience of recovering from and managing mental health issues.
- Mental health pathways should include proactive elements, such as training managers to spot the early warning signs of stressed employees, and reactive elements, such as ensuring employees in need of further support are given clinically appropriate referrals.
- Pathways must be based on the ongoing analysis of organisational data, including the insights generated by analysing how people are currently using existing health benefits.
- People should be viewed as “joined-up” human beings, whose physical and mental health are inextricably intertwined, so that policies can address wellbeing as a whole, instead of attempting to address physical or mental health in isolation.
The report includes top tips on how to create a culture of health – both mental and physical – in the workplace.
