NHS Lothian has launched an innovative DVD to help people who have suffered mental or physical health conditions get back into work.

The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) team from Working Health Services Lothian have developed the ‘I’m VR’ DVD to promote their services, it is designed to help GPs and other health professionals.

The DVD is filmed in a documentary style and features local GPs, current and former patients, vocational rehabilitation staff, small business employers and other health professionals.

Gerry McFeely, Project Manager, Working Health Services Lothian, NHS Lothian, said: “Work is vital to people’s lives and to their overall wellbeing. This DVD poses the question, who is vocational rehabilitation? and the answer is that everyone is vocational rehabilitation.

“The DVD demonstrates how joined up working can help deliver for patients and employers, keeping people in work or helping them to return to work quicker than they might without assistance.”

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