Welcome to Co-Manage!
The Co-Manage hub is full of helpful toolkits and practical guides for people with health-related disabilities / long-term health conditions, as well as the managers, workplaces, and health professionals who support them.
These tools make it easier for everyone to work together to manage health at work. Built on the latest research and real-life experiences, the Co-manage hub is designed to be useful, practical, and effective.
What terms we use and why
To welcome everyone at the Co-Manage hub, we will be referring to everyone experiencing health issues as
‘the individual’ or ‘the person’.
There are many different people in the workplace that play a role. We will be referring to ‘employer’, which includes everyone working in an organisation, such as business owner, managers, colleagues, HR or OH-professionals. Resources for specific target audiences will be marked accordingly.
About
Co-Manage
The beginning of Co-Manage
There is little to no specific advice for employers or individuals on how to achieve the goal of working collaboratively to manage health at work.
The foundation, to tackle this problem and empower individuals living with long-term conditions as well as employers on how to best manage work together, was laid through the NIHR Development Award.
The project, led by Dr David Maidment at Loughborough University, aimed to bring together different groups of researchers, employers, civil servants, healthcare, professionals, and workers to help us how to best to translate research into practical tools that can help improve workplace self-management.
Outputs:
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Read up on our rapid evidence review to see what we have learned so far from the current standpoint of research and evidence.
The further development of Co-Manage
Together with academics and practitioners, we have been developing this practical online hub to support both self- and co-management of health in the workplace.
The project began with the rapid evidence review to identify what is already known about effective self-management practices. From there, we adopted a collaborative approach through a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) group, to make sure the tools and resources are relevant, practical, and capable of driving real change. A mixed-methods questionnaire study gathered both quantitative and qualitative insights, which directly informed the development of the hub's content. This content has undergone multiple rounds of feedback with input from the research team and the PPIE group before being transferred to the online platform.
We are conducting a full trial with participating organisations, to rigorously evaluate the hub's impact in real-world settings.