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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
    • Occupational Health
    • Health surveillance

    Call to extend NHS flu jabs to over-50s as winter surge continues

    by Nic Paton 27 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 27 Jan 2025

    With hospitals and workplaces struggling to cope with this winter’s surge in flu and respiratory viruses, a charity has called...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Keep Britain Working review ‘opportunity to reset’ workforce health

    by Nic Paton 27 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 27 Jan 2025

    The government’s Keep Britain Working review is an “opportunity to start a national reset on workforce health”, a leading think-tank has said.

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Occupational Health

    Two-step testing enabling more train drivers to work with colour blindness

    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025

    An initiative between the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and train drivers’ union ASLEF is enabling more people with...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Keep Britain Working review gets under way, with major reforms due this spring

    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025

    Ministers launch a promised independent review into how employers can be better supported to employ people with disabilities and health conditions.

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Eight in 10 employers agree they have important role in return to work

    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025

    More than eight out of 10 employers (82%) agree they play an important role in helping employees return to work...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Respiratory

    Winter flu surge an ‘unprecedented’ challenge for employers

    by Nic Paton 20 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 20 Jan 2025

    The surge we’ve seen in cases of flu this winter poses an “unprecedented” workplace and public health challenge, an occupational...

    • Blood pressure
    • Fit for Work
    • Cardiac

    BMI too simplistic as a measure for obesity, report argues

    by Nic Paton 16 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Jan 2025

    How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with body mass index (BMI) as a...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Sickness absence management

    Millions feel workplace, home and high street make them unwell

    by Nic Paton 16 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Jan 2025

    Tens of millions of people feel their health and wellbeing is being negatively affected by their workplaces, their homes and...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Two-thirds of workers fear burning out this year

    by Nic Paton 13 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 13 Jan 2025

    Almost two-thirds of UK workers fear they are risk of burning out this year as businesses cut back on resources...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Occupational Health

    Black men have higher rates of late-stage prostate cancer

    by Nic Paton 13 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 13 Jan 2025

    Black men have higher rates of stage 3 and stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis compared to white men, a study has suggested.

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

    HSE updates guidance on silicosis risk from installing stone worktops

    by Nic Paton 10 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Jan 2025

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued guidance for workers installing stone worktops on how to mitigate risk around...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Respiratory

    Respiratory infections cost employers £44bn a year – report

    by Nic Paton 10 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Jan 2025

    With NHS trusts struggling to cope as cases of winter flu soar, a study has warned that respiratory infections cost...

    • Fit for Work
    • Counselling
    • Health and safety

    Workplaces urged to revisit and refresh first aid approaches in 2025

    by Nic Paton 6 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 6 Jan 2025

    Workplaces are being urged to revisit and refresh their first aid practices and approaches as UK plc reopens for business...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Sickness absence management

    Surge in hospitalisations because of vitamin deficiencies

    by Nic Paton 3 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Jan 2025

    There has been a “troubling” surge in the number of people being hospitalised because of vitamin deficiencies, according to an...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Call for ‘national reset’ to tackle ill-health worklessness

    by Nic Paton 3 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Jan 2025

    There needs to be ‘a national reset’ on workplace health during 2025, a think-tank has urged, with government and employers...

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