Job centres and bosses will refer people to therapy or running and gardening clubs to keep them well enough to work in an attempt to tackle long-term sickness in the benefits system.

In the first steps towards the creation of a national occupational health service, pilot schemes will begin in 2024 designed to swoop in on the sick and focus their treatment on staying in work.

Work coaches, physiotherapy and mental health treatment will be offered to people in danger of falling out of the workforce, as well as debt advice, therapeutic recreation and workplace adjustments.

Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, has expressed frustration that the NHS is not doing enough to deal with record levels of sickness absence and wants his department

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