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Christine Husbands

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Christine Husbands is managing director of RedArc, a service that provides personal nurse advisers for people experiencing illness, disability, trauma or bereavement.

    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Stress

    Mental health support: what is popular may not always be the right solution

    by Christine Husbands 23 Aug 2024
    by Christine Husbands 23 Aug 2024

    With demand for mental health support rising, proper assessment always needs to be your starting point when working to help...

    • Compassionate leave
    • Anxiety
    • Parental bereavement leave

    Why, after a bereavement, counselling may not always be the best option

    by Christine Husbands 20 Jul 2023
    by Christine Husbands 20 Jul 2023

    After an employee or colleague is bereaved, there can often be an assumption they will need access to bereavement counselling....

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Top employee wellbeing concerns and how employers can help

    by Christine Husbands 6 Sep 2022
    by Christine Husbands 6 Sep 2022

    Health and wellbeing has been priority for employers since the arrival of Covid-19, but do they truly understand what employees are worried about most?

    • OH service delivery
    • Wellbeing and health promotion
    • Health insurance

    Why workplace health support may need to become more sophisticated in 2022

    by Christine Husbands 20 Dec 2021
    by Christine Husbands 20 Dec 2021

    The pandemic has put a spotlight like never before on the value of supporting, and investing in, employee health and...

    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Mental health conditions

    Employers should not shy away from supporting complex mental ill health

    by Christine Husbands 11 Oct 2021
    by Christine Husbands 11 Oct 2021

    There is a world of difference in the level of intervention needed for low mood and mild anxiety to that needed for severe depression and other mental illnesses,

    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health conditions
    • OH service delivery

    Small businesses well-placed to manage mental health and return to work

    by Christine Husbands 8 Jul 2021
    by Christine Husbands 8 Jul 2021

    As we look towards the summer and, hopefully, the gradual reopening of workplaces, managing employee mental health is going to...

    • Health surveillance
    • OH service delivery
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    OH the key to helping employers understand, and support, less well-known conditions

    by Christine Husbands 9 Apr 2021
    by Christine Husbands 9 Apr 2021

    Less common, or less well-known or understood, health conditions such as auto-immune diseases, ME, epilepsy and MS can often go...

    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid
    • OH service delivery

    Workers with ‘long Covid’ may need personalised and long-term support

    by Christine Husbands 5 Feb 2021
    by Christine Husbands 5 Feb 2021

    Employers wishing to minimise the impact of “long Covid” on both their employees and their organisation should ensure their health...

    • Anxiety
    • Stress
    • Coronavirus

    Why small businesses are best placed to manage post-Covid mental health

    by Christine Husbands 22 Sep 2020
    by Christine Husbands 22 Sep 2020

    Because of closer relationships with their employees, small firms are in an ideal position to spot if and when somebody...

    • Fit for Work
    • Personnel Today
    • Mental health conditions

    Getting your head around cancer – mental health and returning to work post-cancer

    by Christine Husbands 7 Feb 2020
    by Christine Husbands 7 Feb 2020

    Employers needed to be focused on much more than just the physical and workplace adjustments needed for an employee to...

    • Dependent care
    • Family-friendly benefits
    • Wellbeing

    Supporting the forgotten community of employees who are carers

    by Christine Husbands 2 Jan 2017
    by Christine Husbands 2 Jan 2017

    Employers need to consider how to support employees who are carers, so they can balance work with caring for dependants....

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