Dame Carol Black, the UK’s Director for Work and Health, paid a visit to LTL Connect this month as part of the Healthy Minds at Work Initiative. Dame Black is the author of ‘Working for a Healthier Tomorrow’ published last month, which was a thorough review of the health of Britain’s working age population. The review takes the position that working promotes health, calling for a reduction in long-term unemployment and people claiming long-term sickness benefits, encouraging employers to improve their employees’ wellbeing in work through providing sensitive and appropriate support to staff-members, especially when they are dealing with issues relating to physical or mental health. ‘Work is, on the whole, good for an individual’s health and wellbeing, and the reverse is true of worklessness,’ states the report.