Service Overview

Services available for Staff Employees

  • Advice on fitness for appointment and appropriate adjustment where necessary
  • Reviewing the fitness of employees during illness and advising on rehabilitation and re-deployment, where appropriate
  • Advising management and employees in relation to sickness absence
  • Assessing risk relating to the health of individuals and groups engaged in particular tasks
  • Health surveillance
  • Assessing employees eligibility for long term disability benefits and for retirement on health grounds
  • Offering help and support in relation to alcohol, smoking, drug abuse or other health issues which may affect employees
  • Provision of comprehensive travel advice/ vaccinations/ travel packs for essential work travel
  • Providing advice in relation to medico-legal employment issues

Services available for Post graduate students

  • Advice on a student’s fitness to undertake a course and any appropriate adjustments that may be required
  • Advice on fitness to study where there is a concern in relation to a student’s medical fitness to attend university, study and sit exams
  • Assessing risk relating to the health of individuals and groups engaged in particular tasks.
  • Health surveillance
  • Provision of comprehensive travel advice/ vaccinations/ travel packs for course related (e.g. field work, study abroad) travel

Services available for Undergraduate students

  • Advice on a student’s fitness to undertake a course and any appropriate adjustments that may be required
  • Advice on fitness to study where there is a concern in relation to a student’s medical fitness to attend university, study and sit exams
  • Health surveillance where required by legislation
  • Appropriate screening and vaccinations where necessary depending on the demands of the course
  • Provision of comprehensive travel advice/ vaccinations/ travel packs for course related (e.g. field work, electives etc.) travel
  • Provision of health promotion advice on a range of issues such as alcohol and drugs.
  • Management of Inoculation / Sharps incidents.
  • Advice on health related issues

Medical Fitness for visitors; students and employees from other organisations.

Medical Fitness for students and visitors to the University of Manchester from another Institute or Educational Establishment for a short period of time where evidence of health surveillance is required

The PI/Responsible Person must undertake a suitable risk assessment to identify any hazards which the work/study will involve. There is a need to ensure that any medical screening/health surveillance recommended to the visiting student is consistent with that which is provided to the staff and students within the University Of Manchester.

The visiting student needs to be informed prior to the agreed study what medical screening/health surveillance is required.

It is the responsibility of the Home University/Educational Establishment/Institute to ensure that the appropriate medical screening/health surveillance is undertaken.

Subsequently, evidence of appropriate medical screening/health surveillance needs to be provided by the student and forwarded to the relevant PI/Responsible Person prior to attendance at the course at Manchester University.