Facilitating return to work through early-specialist health-based interventions

Overview

2013- 2016

For many people suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI), returning to work can be seen as a primary goal for many who survive. However, returning to work after TBI can be difficult, with a large societal and personal cost. Further, not everyone in the UK who suffers a TBI has access to vocational rehabilitation services to help them return to an existing job or find a new one.

FRESH is a feasibility randomised control trial.

Aims

The trial aims to:

  • Test whether an early job retention intervention for supporting people with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to return to work that was developed in Nottingham, can be delivered in three new NHS trauma centres (Preston, London and Leeds)
  • Whether we can measure the effects and cost-effectiveness of this intervention compared to the usual NHS rehabilitation