76: Pain, Poverty and Employment

In the second programme in our Good Work double bill we hear how people in pain and their families are affected by barriers to employment and support.Kieran McGee and his wife Anne-Marie tell how his neuropathic pain and a lack of ongoing support put an end to both his career and hers as she became his full-time carer. Angela O’Neill recalls having to leave the nursing job she loved and her ‘distressing’ experience of a poorly managed back to work scheme.Staff at the Health and Social Care Alliance set out how the Access to Work programme can help people managing long term conditions to overcome obstacles to getting to and thriving in the workplace. And Jason Leitch of NHS Scotland discusses the Glasgow effect – Scotland’s largest city’s inequalities of health and life expectancy – and how to reduce them.Find out more about the programmes and organisations featured in this episode: Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland Healthyworkinglives.com (NHS support for people with long term conditions and their employers) Access to WorkContributors:  Professor Jason Leitch, Clinical Director of the Healthcare Quality Unit, NHS Scotland Kieran McGee  Anne-Marie McGee  Angela O’Neill Andrew Strong, Policy and Information Manager, the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland  Louise Coupland, Health and Employability Manager, the Health and Social Care Alliance. #Carers #Epidemiologyofpain #Healthcarepolicy #Socialandeconomicimpactofpain #Unemployment #Work