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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.

    • Wellbeing and health promotion
    • Occupational Health

    Half struggling to access prescriptions

    by Nic Paton 18 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 18 Jun 2024

    Almost half of adults in the UK have struggled to get their prescriptions, and more are now blaming Brexit than...

    • Sickness absence management
    • Wellbeing and health promotion
    • Occupational Health

    Climate change fuelling mosquito-borne diseases in Europe

    by Nic Paton 18 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 18 Jun 2024

    As many in the UK are gearing up for summer getaways, European countries are warning they are seeing rising cases...

    • Mental health conditions
    • Employee Assistance Programmes
    • Occupational Health

    Take-up of EAPs as low as 3%

    by Nic Paton 17 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 17 Jun 2024

    More than eight out of 10 employers that offer an employee assistance programme report take-up as low as 3%-5%, according to a poll.

    • Vaccinations
    • Sickness absence management
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Workplace flu jabs ‘can save £87 per employee per year’

    by Nic Paton 17 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 17 Jun 2024

    Offering flu jabs through the workplace could save employers as much as £87 a year per employee, research has suggested.

    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Stress

    Four in 10 feel exhausted and at risk of burnout

    by Nic Paton 12 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 12 Jun 2024

    More than four in 10 UK workers feel mentally or physically exhausted at the end of their working day and at risk of burnout.

    • Expatriates
    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions

    Four in five expat workers suffering mental ill health

    by Nic Paton 11 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 11 Jun 2024

    Four out of five expat workers are suffering from at least one mental health symptom and almost half are struggling...

    • Health and safety
    • OH service delivery
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Put OH at heart of recovery, urges IOSH

    by Nic Paton 10 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 10 Jun 2024

    The majority of health and safety professionals want the next government to prioritise improving occupational health services to cut the...

    • Depression
    • Mental health conditions
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms affect fewer people than thought – study

    by Nic Paton 10 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 10 Jun 2024

    Around one in six people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but this is fewer than had previously been...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cardiac
    • Health surveillance

    Ethnic minority patients with heart failure at higher risk of death – study

    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024

    Ethnic minority patients with heart failure are at much higher risk of death than White patients, research has concluded.
    According...

    • Fit for Work
    • OH service delivery
    • Sickness absence management

    Cautious welcome for Labour pledges on health and work

    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024

    Initial Labour Party proposals around health and work have been given a cautious thumbs-up by health professionals, even if the...

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

    Cancer rates in under-50s up by nearly a quarter

    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024

    Cancer rates in people aged 25 to 49 increased by nearly a quarter (24%) from 1995 to 2019, according to...

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

    A third work through pain rather than take sick leave – poll

    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Jun 2024

    More than a third of workers (37%) say they are working through pain as they cannot afford to take sick...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Sickness absence management

    Type 2 diabetes up 40% among under-40s since 2016, warns charity

    by Nic Paton 31 May 2024
    by Nic Paton 31 May 2024

    There has been a 40% rise in diagnoses of type 2 diabetes among younger people since 2016-17, a charity has...

    • Hybrid working
    • Fit for Work
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Sickness absence: hybrid workers take less time off

    by Nic Paton 31 May 2024
    by Nic Paton 31 May 2024

    Hybrid workers who split their time between the home and office tend to experience fewer work days lost to sickness,...

    • Cancer
    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management

    Skin cancer cases set to reach record high, warns charity

    by Nic Paton 31 May 2024
    by Nic Paton 31 May 2024

    Cases of skin cancer in the UK are projected to reach a record high this year of 20,800, a charity...

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