<p>Access to Occupational Health (OH) services can play an important role in reducing economic inactivity by supporting disabled people and people with health conditions to stay and succeed in work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to testing a financial incentive (subsidy), and market navigation support scheme, to gather evidence on whether this is effective in increasing access to OH for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and the self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>The Spring Budget 2023 announced new funding to expand the forthcoming Occupational Health SME subsidy pilot. This funding covers the next two financial years and increases in the second year as the pilot increases in scale.</p>