Carol Black
Dame Carol Black is expert adviser on health and wellbeing at work to the Department of Health. She currently chairs the government’s Responsibility Deal health at work network, one of five networks working collaboratively with business and other organisations to voluntarily improve public health.
CommentCarol Black: The many benefits of healthy staff
Promoting and ensuring staff health and wellbeing is essential
HSJ KnowledgeWhy organisations must invest in staff health and wellbeing
The need to improve employee health and wellbeing is great. But are the benefits to the NHS worth the required investment? Carol Black explains why they must be.
CommentIndependent assessment could reduce long-term sickness absence
Creating an independent assessment service to advise on employee absence is our chance to create a fair system, say Carol Black and David Frost.
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Dame Carol Black on clinical responsibility
My interest in the changes in the NHS workforce has mostly focused on frontline staff - participants in the millions of clinical encounters that are at the heart of the service.
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The common sense
first opinion: Can anything really be done to narrow the divide between clinicians and non-clinical managers? Well, actually, yes, says Carol Black