Centre for Mental Health

National Employment and
Health Innovations Network

Although the National Employment and Health Innovations Network (NEHIN) drew to a close at the end of June 2011 the Centre for Mental Health will keep the NEHIN website online as a legacy site. It contains a record of all the meetings and many of the presentations made over the last 8 years.

This network provided regular opportunities for innovators and policy makers to meet to exchange ideas, experience and evidence covering the whole field of health and work.

It was sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions and supported by the Department of Health, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Executive.

Resources may be useful for:

• an employer wanting to improve your business by creating a healthier workforce,
• a civil servant responsible for policy at local or national level looking for an evidence base on what works,
• a social entrepreneur running a scheme which could revolutionalise health at work or opportunities for people at risk of exclusion,
• or a radical clinician interested in improving the management of health conditions for people of working age

The Aims of the Network

The network aims to:

• provide opportunities to share good practice and innovation in promoting health and tackling ill-health in the workplace; and reducing health inequalities through creating employment opportunities;
• support the implementation of innovative projects and programmes by designing learning opportunities around key themes linking their work to Government policy objectives in employment, regeneration, reduction of health inequalities and social inclusion.
• support the dissemination of evidence and good practice, and its integration into the mainstream modernisation agenda