The national clinical audit of the occupational health (OH) management of back pain in NHS staff was established in 2008. This audit measures how well OH services are managing staff of NHS trusts in England with back pain. The aims of the audit are to:

  • Assess variations in the OH care of staff with back pain across NHS trusts in England.
  • Enable NHS OH services to assess the quality of their care against evidence-based criteria.
  • Enable NHS OH services to benchmark the care provided to their staff against other OH services providing to NHS staff.
  • Enable NHS OH services, and the trusts with which they work, to compare the results from this audit with their own baseline data collected in 2008.
  • Improve the management of back pain in NHS staff.
  • Prompt and support NHS OH service providers to achieve aspects of Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service (SEQOHS).


HWDU has run two rounds of this audit in 2008 and 2011.

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