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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
    • NHS
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Long NHS waits hampering employee return to work

    by Nic Paton 11 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 11 Oct 2024

    Long NHS waiting times are having a profound financial impact on UK businesses as employees end up stuck at home...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Call for national workplace mental health strategy

    by Nic Paton 11 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 11 Oct 2024

    The government is being urged to develop a national workplace mental health strategy that enables businesses to better manage and...

    • Fit for Work
    • Blood pressure
    • Obesity

    Britons rate health as poor, but better than US for obesity, hypertension and cholesterol

    by Nic Paton 7 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 7 Oct 2024

    Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults aged in their thirties and forties...

    • E-cigarettes
    • Cancer
    • Respiratory

    One million who have never smoked now vape regularly – study

    by Nic Paton 4 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 4 Oct 2024

    As many as one million adults in England who have never regularly smoked now vape, according to a new study....

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • OH service delivery

    Lack of access to OH leaving millions struggling to work because of ill health

    by Nic Paton 4 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 4 Oct 2024

    More than eight million working-age people now report health conditions that leave them struggling to work, with the UK’s very...

    • Fit for Work
    • Sickness absence management
    • Reproductive health

    Lack of menopause support from employers still driving women to quit

    by Nic Paton 1 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 1 Oct 2024

    More than one in 10 menopausal women has considered quitting their work because of a lack of employer support, with...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Mental health: Call for OH ‘hub’, as one in 10 took time off work last year

    by Nic Paton 30 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 30 Sep 2024

    A UK-wide occupational health mental health ‘hub’ should be created to help tackle the “unprecedented” levels of mental ill health...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Health surveillance

    GPs often ‘a barrier’ stopping black men being tested for prostate cancer

    by Nic Paton 27 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 27 Sep 2024

    Nearly a third (32%) of black men have not had a prostate cancer test because their GP either refused to...

    • Mental health conditions
    • OH service delivery
    • Sickness absence management

    Role and value of OH intervention under the spotlight

    by Nic Paton 27 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 27 Sep 2024

    Dame Carol Black, chair of the new government occupational health taskforce, is set to be at the heart of high-level...

    • Anxiety
    • Fit for Work
    • Depression

    Managers complacent about rise in employee mental ill health – poll

    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024

    Nearly two-thirds of businesses (64%) say they have seen a rise in absenteeism because of employee mental ill health, yet...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Four out of five tradespeople suffering from mental ill health

    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024

    Four out of five tradespeople (82%) say they have experienced stress, anxiety and mental ill health because of their work,...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Cardiac

    Widespread ignorance of links between dental and physical and mental health – poll

    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024

    Nearly two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds (65%) know less about their dental health than they do about their mental health, illustrating the...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Long Covid

    Pain the most common symptom of long Covid – study

    by Nic Paton 20 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 20 Sep 2024

    Pain tends to be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported by individuals with long Covid, according to a study.

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

    Profession gears up to promote Occupational Health Awareness Week

    by Nic Paton 20 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 20 Sep 2024

    Next week will see a series of events and activities being run by SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, as...

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

    Up to 4.3 million could be out of work because of ill health by 2029 – report

    by Nic Paton 17 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 17 Sep 2024

    As many as 4.3 million people could be languishing out of work because of sickness and ill health by the...

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