“…The likelihood of a return to work is only one-in-five after twelve months of incapacity welfare (DWP, 2002). The health related unemployed appear especially vulnerable to the negative effects of unemployment due to additional loss of life/social structure, personal purpose and work identity (Bennett, 1970;Grove, 2006). Length of time unemployed is associated with deteriorating psychological health (Freidl, Fazekas, Rami, Pretis & Feistritzer, 2007), physical de-conditioning (Waisak, Verma, Pransky & Webster, 2004) and ongoing financial strain (Price, Choi & Vinokur, 2002).…”