Long NHS waiting times are having a profound financial impact on UK businesses as employees end up stuck at home...
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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The government is being urged to develop a national workplace mental health strategy that enables businesses to better manage and...
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Britons rate health as poor, but better than US for obesity, hypertension and cholesterol
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonRates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults aged in their thirties and forties...
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As many as one million adults in England who have never regularly smoked now vape, according to a new study....
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Lack of access to OH leaving millions struggling to work because of ill health
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonMore than eight million working-age people now report health conditions that leave them struggling to work, with the UK’s very...
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More than one in 10 menopausal women has considered quitting their work because of a lack of employer support, with...
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Mental health: Call for OH ‘hub’, as one in 10 took time off work last year
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonA UK-wide occupational health mental health ‘hub’ should be created to help tackle the “unprecedented” levels of mental ill health...
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Nearly a third (32%) of black men have not had a prostate cancer test because their GP either refused to...
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Dame Carol Black, chair of the new government occupational health taskforce, is set to be at the heart of high-level...
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Nearly two-thirds of businesses (64%) say they have seen a rise in absenteeism because of employee mental ill health, yet...
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Four out of five tradespeople (82%) say they have experienced stress, anxiety and mental ill health because of their work,...
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Widespread ignorance of links between dental and physical and mental health – poll
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonNearly two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds (65%) know less about their dental health than they do about their mental health, illustrating the...
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Pain tends to be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported by individuals with long Covid, according to a study.
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Next week will see a series of events and activities being run by SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, as...
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Up to 4.3 million could be out of work because of ill health by 2029 – report
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonAs many as 4.3 million people could be languishing out of work because of sickness and ill health by the...