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Some Questions Answered on the 2015 Changes to Workers Compensation
IWSN report back on the Insurance reform meeting with the Safety Insurance Regulatory Authority. Yesterday the IWSN met with the Safety Insurance Regulatory Authority for a presentation on how they...
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Five things you should tell your doctor
Five things you should tell your doctor. It is an unfortunate side effect of the NSW Workers Compensation System that many local GP’s are refusing to take on a patient who has been injured at work....
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Broken Hill Base Hospital bullying and Harassment of Nurses.
When An out-of-towner hears of a problem in Broken Hill hospital you know there’s a problem. The recent news reports of bullying and harassment at Broken Hill base hospital is unfortunately not new...
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New Benefits to come in October, others in December.
Legislative changes to come into effect in October and December. In previous posts we outlined the changes to benefits that the Government legislated in August this year. Dates have now been set on...
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What if your insurer doesn’t want to pay for what your doctor says you need?
Disagreements in treatment: Disagreements on the type and amount of treatment the injured worker receive often occur when the Injury Management Plan is being developed. These include the need for...
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Returning to Work Assistance (whether or not your are on workers compensation)
An injured worker cannot be discriminated against because they are ill, injured or have an acquired disability. Most companies will provide workers with a return to work program for when the worker...
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Is Facebook a journal or a way of connecting with others.
What really is Facebook to us anyway? I have a friend. That friend has a friend. The friends friend became my Facebook friend quite recently. The Facebook friend (friend’s friend) is ill – has been...
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IWSN Workers Compensation Handbook 2015 released
Injured Workers Support Network Workers Compensation Handbook 2015 release today. Today marks a milestone in the Injured Workers Support Network with the release of the 2015 Workers Compensation...
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Reasonable? What is a Reasonable Request from an Insurer?
Don’t sign that letter asking you for All your medical files! The legislation states that an injured workers has to comply with all reasonable requests of the insurer. This isn’t the free for all the...
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Do you know of a Good Workers Compensation Doctor?
The Injured Workers Support Network’s always gets asked for the name of a good workers compensation doctor. We want to be able to answer. Please fill out the short survey found here: IWSN General...
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The name change won’t wipe away the injustices.
Your Insurer is now ICareNSW. It’s hard to resist pointing it out once its known but its the name of a brand of toilet tissue in my local supermarket as well. But ICare NSW isn’t going to be the...
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Emergency Relief
Emergency Relief Emergency Relief helps people deal with their immediate financial crisis situation in a way that maintains the dignity of the individual and encourages self-reliance. It is an activity...
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Legal Costs for Work Capacity Decision Appeals- Discussion Paper
The 2015 reforms introduced in August included the possibility for injured workers to seek legal help when appealing an insurers work capacity decisions. We’ve been asked to provide a submission on the...
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Cycle of despair: How a dysfunctional system damages the mental health of...
Cycle-of-despair-caused-by-an-adversarial-system John McPhilbin, a previous Coordinator at the Injured Workers Support Network spent some time on trying to describe the issues faced by injured...
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Loneliness undermines health as well as mental well-being
Feeling connected to others is vital to a person’s mental well-being, as well as physical health, research at the University of Chicago shows. The studies, reported in a book, Loneliness: Human Nature...
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Burnout happens to all of us
Feeling low? Lethargic?Like you want to escape from everything? You might not be depressed. you might just be burnt out. “Burnt out”, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, Compassion fatigue,...
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The only Doctor that can change your certificate is your Doctor.
Your doctor, not the insurers “Independent Medical Examiner” not your insurers case manager, not your rehabilitation caseworker only your doctor can change your workers compensation certificate of...
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International Day of People with Disability
Inclusion matters: access and empowerment for people of all abilities People who have become disabled through a work place accident do have a different experience from people who have been disabled at...
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Christmas and Mental Health
Christmas can be a challenging time for our stress levels and it’s even harder for those of us with mental ill-health. So many things that are part of our routines and we take for granted become...
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The values we share (and other problems on social posts)
It may (or may not) come as a surprise to anyone reading our website that we occasionally get some negative feedback from people, either through email, vocally or through comments on our website. It’s...
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