<p>Access to Occupational Health (OH) services can play an important role in supporting disabled people, and people with health conditions, to stay and succeed in work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working with employers, and the commercial OH market, to increase access to good quality and cost-effective OH services. This package of activity (which was set out in the Health is Everyone’s Business consultation response) supports the Government’s aim to reduce levels of sickness absence from work and resulting job loss.</p><p> </p><p>Government officials regularly engage with a range of stakeholders, including small business organisations, wider business organisations and the OH sector. This includes engagement on work to design and test a financial incentive service to support small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed people to overcome cost barriers to accessing OH advice and assessments.</p><p> </p><p>The service will gather insight from employers about financial incentives for OH to influence employer demand. We will also undertake an employer survey to gather further evidence from employers on their perceptions and use of OH more generally.</p>