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

Nic Paton
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.
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OH professionals need to recognise that changing social habits – especially people listening to content through headphones at work or...
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The government has committed to developing and publishing a men’s health strategy focused on heart disease and strokes, prostate and...
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Extreme weather is not only a physical and infrastructure risk to organisations, but a mental health one too, research has...
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The first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years has been developed by researchers, in a move that is...
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Get Britain Working white paper branded ‘very disappointing’ for overlooking OH
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonOccupational health professionals have slammed this week’s Get Britain Working white paper as “very disappointing”, not least for completely overlooking...
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A total of 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness in the past year (2023-24), figures from the Health...
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An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that analyses ECG readings during routine heart scans could identify people at risk of type...
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More than a third of chartered accountants (36%) say they have suffered from insomnia or disrupted sleep over the past...
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More than half of businesses are concerned by long NHS waiting lists and the impact these are having on their...
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More than two-thirds (68%) of UK workers do not know if their employer offers acccess to an employee assistance programme...
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The number of people in their fifties being admitted to hospital following a stroke has risen by more than half...
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Scotland still struggling with stigmatisation of severe mental illness – poll
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonNearly three-quarters of Scots (72%) feel there is a problem with stigmatisation of severe mental illness in the country, research...
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Accidental deaths in the UK have reached an all-time high and are now the second biggest killer of people aged...
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More than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide, almost twice as many as previously thought, research has suggested.
The study,...