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There is strong evidence that employment has considerable positive impacts on physical and mental health,20 while spells of unemployment put people at risk of developing ill-health. With this in mind the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) designed an intervention that BIT helped to test: the Health and Work Conversation (HWC). We helped train 100 DWP staff to deliver face-to- face training to employment advisors, which gave them the skills to have supportive first conversations with new benefits claimants. |