Government documents and research have come thick and fast in recent weeks laying out the changes to the welfare system and building up the evidence base to support these reforms and the long awaited pilots for a range of other proposals, including Dame Carol Black's recommendations for health and work the government's promise of funding for health promotion pilots in the workplace .
A report from the University of York looks at the evidence that return to work interventions for mental health problems can cut the numbers on sick leave, while the government's Vocational Rehabilitation Taskforce has launched evidence showing that nine out of 10 people can be moved back into employment given the right basic healthcare and management.
Business has given its blessing to the welfare reforms, no doubt encouraged by promises to double the amount of funding available for employers who make adjustments to get incapacitated people back to work.
It is almost three years since the Health Work and Wellbeing strategy was launched in October 2005 and the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are still falling into place.
Of course it is ultimately down to individual people to take responsibility for their health and once again the evidence is there to show that given education and encouragement most of us are prepared to do so.