The Umeå region as a labour market region (Umeå, Bjurholm, Vännäs, Vindeln, Robertsfors and Nordmaling) together make up over half of Västerbotten's population about 160,000 (Umeå municipality 130,000) out of 280,000 inhabitants. Coastal and inland municipalities form a common labour market region. The labour market region is characterised by high labour force participation, low unemployment and strong workplace growth. The labour reserve is thus increasingly limited and highly dependent on securing the availability of hours worked from the existing labour force and creating continued labour inflows. The demographic challenge is also evident in the Umeå region, where the proportion of working age is decreasing at the same time as a significantly increased labour demand. Not least in the municipal sector, where the proportion of older people is increasing in the region with a need for a large number of employees in health and social care. In addition, volume needs in childcare and schools are maintained, while the labour demand in the business sector is high and continues to increase. It is therefore crucial that the geographically available labour force is actually at the disposal of the labour market. At the same time, sick leave and sickness rates are higher in the municipal sector and among women in the labour market region. As a result, there are significantly more women than men who are not part of the labour force for shorter or longer periods as a result of ill health and sick leave. The high level of sick leave in a labour market region with limited labour supply, in turn, contributes to a shortage of replacement workers, additional workload and worsening conditions for the working environment. The reasons for the high rates of illness are several. One of the reasons is a not fully utilised opportunities for early intervention in the event of signs or risks of sick leave, shortcomings in working methods and compliance with and in existing conversion and rehabilitation processes. This includes the lack of effective individual-centred stakeholder collaboration to support the employee in using guidance, early efforts to quickly find their way back to the workplace, profession, employer or labour market in general. The aim of the project is to reduce inequality and the risks of labour shortages by making available hours worked in the existing regional workforce. It is a consistently retaining perspective with the goal of increasing the guiding efforts, early interventions in the event of signs of ill health and reducing sick rates through a developed rehab process. The project will develop working methods, methods and processes that enable early intervention that prevents and or shortens sick leave within the Umeå region's municipal operations. An important starting point for success is assessed by the actors to be a clearer and more thorough target group perspective, i.e. that the processes must be based on the target group (the employee / the sick person). Therefore, the project will be based on a service design perspective as a method when the working methods have emerged to build and further develop services, working methods and processes that provide the best possible user experience and effect.