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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
    • Cancer
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Warning of 900,000 UK cancer deaths by 2029

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2024

    There will be more than 900,000 cancer deaths in the UK by the end of the new government’s first parliamentary...

    • Fit for Work
    • Vaccinations
    • Health surveillance

    More needs to be done to reassure ethnic communities on vaccines

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2024

    Trust in vaccines remains mostly high among people aged 50 to 70, yet understanding about vaccination is “concerningly” low among...

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

    Government expert board set up to tackle ill-health worklessness

    by Nic Paton 13 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 13 Sep 2024

    The government has set up a ‘Labour Market Advisory Board’ to tackle rising levels of worklessness, including because of ill...

    • Fit for Work
    • Police
    • Conditions

    NHS reform will mean employers need to rethink workplace health too

    by Nic Paton 13 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 13 Sep 2024

    With the government pledging the ‘biggest reimagining of our NHS since its birth’, Nic Paton highlights that employers will need...

    • Fit for Work
    • Counselling
    • Mental health conditions

    SOM guide emphasises value of OH support after a suicide

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024

    Occupational health can be a pivotal resource employers look to for help and guidance when responding to the death of...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Cost-of-living crisis ‘devastating’ for people with mental ill health – report

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024

    The cost-of-living crisis has been devastating for many people with mental health problems, a charity has warned.
    The report from...

    • Fit for Work
    • E-cigarettes
    • Cancer

    Vaping as damaging to young people’s lung as smoking – study

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024

    Vaping can cause as much damage to young people’s lungs as smoking, research has suggested.
    The study by a team...

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health conditions
    • Diabetes

    SOM guide to help OH better support driver health and wellbeing

    by Nic Paton 6 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 6 Sep 2024

    SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has published a guide for employers and occupational health professionals on supporting the health...

    • Fit for Work
    • Blood pressure
    • NHS

    NHS to pilot blood pressure checks at dentists and opticians

    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024

    People in parts of England will soon be able to get blood pressure checks at their dentist or optician under...

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

    People increasingly being forced to budget for private healthcare

    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024

    Britons are increasingly feeling they have to set money aside to pay for private healthcare because the NHS will not...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cardiac
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Weekend lie-in good for heart health – research

    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024

    Having a lie-in at the weekend could actually be good for your heart health, new research has suggested.
    Catching up...

    • Fit for Work
    • Blood pressure
    • Cancer

    NHS Health Checks to be rolled out to workplaces

    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024

    More than 130,000 people across the country are to be offered NHS health ‘MOTs’ in the workplace from next month,...

    • E-cigarettes
    • Cancer
    • Respiratory

    Doctors urge action to tackle ‘growing epidemic’ of young vaping

    by Nic Paton 28 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 28 Aug 2024

    Doctors are urging the government to get tough on what they are calling the “growing epidemic” of vaping in the...

    • Gender
    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing

    Men’s health: Men in England facing ‘silent crisis’, warn councils

    by Nic Paton 27 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 27 Aug 2024

    Men in England are facing “a silent health crisis”, according to a new report.

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Dementia

    Lung cancer vaccine and drug for Alzheimer’s herald new treatments

    by Nic Paton 23 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 23 Aug 2024

    Breakthrough treatments to tackle lung cancer and dementia are on the horizon, with a lung cancer vaccine now being tested...

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