Health-led Trials

This report presents findings from the evaluation of the Health-led Employment Trials (HLTs). These tested the provision of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) — a well-evidenced voluntary employment support programme for people living with severe and enduring mental illness in secondary care — with a group experiencing mild/moderate mental and/or physical health conditions in primary and community care settings. Estimates of impact on employment, earnings, health and wellbeing used a randomised controlled trial (RCT) design, with outcomes taken from linked survey and administrative data sets. An economic evaluation estimated the value of the impacts set against the costs of delivering the IPS services. A process evaluation using surveys and qualitative research explored implementation.