Bridging those troubled waters

Abstract

Many people who have even a short period in hospital through mental illness lose their jobs. In one Bristol hospital, a survey showed that about 80% of people who had jobs on admission were unemployed a year later.1 This was not necessarily because they stayed in hospital for a long time. Most were never asked whether their job was being kept open for them, and it was just assumed by hospital staff that supporting a return to work or talking to employers about their employee's chances of recovery was not part of the job. Mo Hutchison gives a first hand account of her own recent experiences and her own unique "back to work" strategy, designed and tested by herself with some much‐valued help — and not a little scepticism from the hospital staff.

Citation

Hutchison, M. (2002), "Bridging those troubled waters", A Life in the Day, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200200010