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Nic Paton is consultant editor at Personnel Today. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for Personnel Today and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.

    • Fit for Work
    • Coronavirus
    • Vaccinations

    RSPH urging at risk to get vaccinated as winter ‘tripledemic’ looms

    by Nic Paton 6 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 6 Dec 2024

    People at risk of getting severely ill with the flu this winter are being urged to get vaccinated as soon...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health surveillance
    • Health and safety

    Changing social habits mean OH must rethink occupational noise risk

    by Nic Paton 3 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Dec 2024

    OH professionals need to recognise that changing social habits – especially people listening to content through headphones at work or...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Conditions

    Government to develop men’s health strategy

    by Nic Paton 3 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Dec 2024

    The government has committed to developing and publishing a men’s health strategy focused on heart disease and strokes, prostate and...

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health conditions
    • Sickness absence management

    Extreme weather is a mental health as well as a physical risk: research

    by Nic Paton 29 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 29 Nov 2024

    Extreme weather is not only a physical and infrastructure risk to organisations, but a mental health one too, research has...

    • Fit for Work
    • Research
    • Respiratory

    First ‘game-changing’ new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years

    by Nic Paton 29 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 29 Nov 2024

    The first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years has been developed by researchers, in a move that is...

    • Fit for Work
    • OH service delivery
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Get Britain Working white paper branded ‘very disappointing’ for overlooking OH

    by Nic Paton 29 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 29 Nov 2024

    Occupational health professionals have slammed this week’s Get Britain Working white paper as “very disappointing”, not least for completely overlooking...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    1.7 million suffered work-related illness last year – HSE

    by Nic Paton 25 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 25 Nov 2024

    A total of 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness in the past year (2023-24), figures from the Health...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health surveillance
    • Diabetes

    AI diabetes breakthrough, as NHS rolls out eye screening programme

    by Nic Paton 22 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 22 Nov 2024

    An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that analyses ECG readings during routine heart scans could identify people at risk of type...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Accountants experiencing ‘concerning’ levels of stress and burnout

    by Nic Paton 22 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 22 Nov 2024

    More than a third of chartered accountants (36%) say they have suffered from insomnia or disrupted sleep over the past...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Record NHS waits harming absence and return to work – poll

    by Nic Paton 22 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 22 Nov 2024

    More than half of businesses are concerned by long NHS waiting lists and the impact these are having on their...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Two-thirds have no idea if employer offers an EAP

    by Nic Paton 19 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 19 Nov 2024

    More than two-thirds (68%) of UK workers do not know if their employer offers acccess to an employee assistance programme...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Stroke

    Stroke hospital admissions for people in fifties up by half – NHS

    by Nic Paton 18 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 18 Nov 2024

    The number of people in their fifties being admitted to hospital following a stroke has risen by more than half...

    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Scotland still struggling with stigmatisation of severe mental illness – poll

    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024

    Nearly three-quarters of Scots (72%) feel there is a problem with stigmatisation of severe mental illness in the country, research...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Musculoskeletal disorders

    Accidental deaths in UK at all-time high, warns RoSPA

    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024

    Accidental deaths in the UK have reached an all-time high and are now the second biggest killer of people aged...

    • Disability
    • Diabetes
    • Sickness absence management

    Number of adults with diabetes worldwide twice a high as thought

    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024

    More than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide, almost twice as many as previously thought, research has suggested.
    The study,...

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