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<p /> <p>The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service can offer support to individuals
with a mental health condition who are absent from work or finding work difficult.</p><p>
</p><p>The service supports those experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or other
mental health issues that are affecting their work.</p><p> </p><p>The service was
established in December 2011 and is delivered by Remploy Employment Services.</p><p>
</p><p>Fit for Work provides both a supportive occupational health assessment and
general health and work advice to employees, employers and General Practitioners (GPs),
to help individuals stay in or return to work.</p><p> </p><p>We have also allocated
over £43 million in the next three years to pilot services which support people with
common mental health conditions to get into, and stay in, work. These will include
buying early access to support online cognitive behavioural therapy for claimants
and users of Fit for Work; and co-locating NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
(IAPT) services in Jobcentres.</p>
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