It Pays to Care

✨ PIEF National Conference 2024 ✨ Today marks the end of a wonderful couple of weeks for the IPTC team in the Wild West! We've spent the last two days at the PIEF Conference hosted by the Personal Injury Education Foundation. IPTC's Dr Mary Wyatt presented with Suncorp's Michael Walsh yesterday. Another great presentation that stirred lots of interest in the development of the Work Injury Management Standards, that IPTC has been contributing to with Suncorp/GIO. The team was honoured to be a finalist in the 'Outstanding Contribution by a Team' award at last night's awards, and we congratulate to all winners and finalists who are each contributing massively to better injury management outcomes in the sector! Thank you to the whole IPTC team, including those on the ground in WA (Mary Wyatt, Sharon Stratford, Rhea Mercado, Rachael Ford and Lachie Green) and those who couldn't join us in Perth but equally contribute to IPTC's outstanding impact (Tanya Cambey, Eva Urban, Cheryl Griffiths and Jodie Farokhi). #PIEF2024 #PIEFconference

This week, the IPTC team is in Perth to attend the PIEF Conference, hosted by our wonderful friends at the Personal Injury Education Foundation. While the conference kicked off in earnest this morning, the IPTC team (working with PIEF) hosted a symposium for work injury management stakeholders yesterday afternoon. The symposium was another great success, reaffirming the importance of the IPTC policy for overcoming barriers to effective work injury management - but (most importantly) participants came together to plot a great range of practical solutions to make the policy reality! When each of our tables were asked if the people in the room (and at the broader PIEF Conference) have the knowledge and talents to transform work injury management: the answer was a resounding YES! Consensus is that the sector can collaborate to improve processes and, ultimately, outcomes. Thank you to Ian Maybury, Rebecca Harris, Tahnee Vidler, Dr Amy Bright (MBBS), and Mark Isaacs for joining us in our panel discussion. And thank you to all of our participants and our partners at PIEF - we hope to connect with loads of people at the conference over the next couple of days! #pief2024 #piefconference

Thank you to the wonderful panel who spoke at today's It Pays to Care follow up symposium and provided such great insights: Rebecca Harris, WorkCover WA; Ian Maybury, Lockton; Dr Amy Bright (MBBS) ; Tahnee Vidler, Suncorp Group; Mark Isaacs, Personal Injury Education Foundation.

Momentum is building at Crown Perth for the 2024 PIEF National Conference! Our General Manager Regulatory Services, Rebecca Harris, joined a panel of specialists to discuss strategies for embedding the It Pays to Care policy. A special thank you to Sharon Stratford and Mary Wyatt from It Pays to Care for facilitating the session and to all panel members for their valuable insights.

This morning we had a fantastic session on the important role employers play in achieving good return-to-work outcomes. Thanks to our guest speaker Dr Mary Wyatt from It Pays to Care.

✨ IPTC at the ANZSOM ASM! (Acronyms galore!) Mary Wyatt and Sharon Stratford were flying the flag for It Pays to Care at this week's ANZSOM Inc. Annual Scientific Meeting in Perth. Dr Mary was involved in presentations and other on-stage antics - reaffirming the essential role of the occupational physician in effective and efficient work injury management! The Australia and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine have been great proponents of the IPTC policy and crucial secretariat partners since the policy's publication. We're incredibly grateful for their ongoing support! Were you at the ASM? Did you catch Dr Mary present? #ItPaysToCare #ANZSOMASM

🔔 Optimising case management: ReturntoWorkSA's evolving strategies for effective return to work 🔔 Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 3pm AEDT It Pays to Care joins our close partners at RTWMatters and Personal Injury Education Foundation to bring you a webinar with Michael Francis, CEO of ReturnToWorkSA. This webinar will provide valuable insights into ReturnToWorkSA's successful case management system, including: > Early intervention strategies > Focused management in critical post-injury weeks > Building case manager capability > Balancing caseloads and admin demands > Tools for consistent best practice This webinar aligns closely with the IPTC policy paper, which emphasises the importance of active and responsive management of individual cases to support recovery and return to work. Register now via RTWMatters: https://lnkd.in/gVvUJn3a #ItPaysToCare #WorkersCompensation #ReturnToWork

Given how supportive Chris White and Rebecca Harris from WorkCover WA have been of It Pays to Care, it was wonderful that Dr Mary Wyatt was able to introduce and acknowledge both who opened the ANZSOM Inc. annual scientific meeting in Perth this morning.

🏁 Championing change as scheme LEADERS 🏁 Regulators and insurers set the tone and standard for schemes. Policymakers have the capacity to promote positive psychosocial influence on claims at the level of legislation, standards, culture, scheme oversight, and delivery and dispute systems. To influence high-quality outcomes for workers and communities, scheme leaders can: 1️⃣ Maintain clarity of purpose and a strong sense of values to underpin cooperation. 2️⃣ Engage actively with scheme participants to foster a shared prioritisation of worker health and well-being. 3️⃣ Be consultative, open and transparent, so that scheme participants know their feedback and input is valued and acted upon. 🏢 Within workplaces and healthcare organisations, senior managers are crucial in the promotion of cultures and approaches that achieve better RTW results. 🧠 And as we always say – there are always opportunities to embed and promote the biopsychosocial approach at all levels of work injury management! Read more about leadership and the rest of the IPTC values paper here: https://lnkd.in/gUQ6V-G5

🎥 What is the biopsychosocial approach? In our new It Pays to Care video, occupational physician Dr Amy Bright (MBBS) gives us a practical introduction! In week two of #SafeWorkMonth, and ahead of World Mental Health Day tomorrow, we focus on psychosocial hazards! It's more important than ever to remember that all domains of the work injury management ecosystem – including case managers, healthcare professionals, and employers – can reflect the biopsychosocial approach in their work and actively contribute identifying and addressing psychosocial hazards. View the full video, and read the new info page, on the IPTC website: https://lnkd.in/gytCDABM #ItPaysToCare #SafetyIsOurBusiness