First person: Metropolitan Police blues: Protracted sickness absence, ill health retirement, and the occupational psychiatrist

BMJ

Volumn 342, Issue 7804, 2011, Pages

  Summerfield, Derek ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CONSULTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PENSION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RETIREMENT; REVIEW; WORK DISABILITY;

EID: 79955535251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d2127     Document Type: Review

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