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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.

    • Mental health conditions
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    • Health insurance

    ‘Healthy work’ about much more than access to EAPs, employers told

    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025

    Creating a healthy workplace has to be about much more than just buying in external services such as employee assistance...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health surveillance
    • Respiratory

    Tool developed for employers to calculate cost of respiratory illness

    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025

    A tool has been developed to help businesses calculate the financial impact of respiratory illnesses within their workforce.
    The interactive...

    • Change management
    • Employee relations
    • Employee engagement

    Four ways HR can maintain trust in uncertain times

    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025

    Between the prospect of a global trade war around tariffs, volatile financial markets, and collapsing trust in many of our...

    • Latest News
    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management

    Half a million more now have access to group risk support – report

    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025

    The number of people able to access workplace-based group risk policies rose by more than half a million last year,...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Latest News

    NHS urging people to check for cancer warning signs

    by Nic Paton 22 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 22 Apr 2025

    People check their bank balance more frequently than they do their body for possible warning signs of cancer, an NHS...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Mental health conditions

    Call for better mental health support for NHS workers

    by Nic Paton 17 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Apr 2025

    Psychiatrists have called on the government to put in place better mental health support for NHS frontline staff.
    The call...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    NHS to expand GP scheme enabling greater access to community care

    by Nic Paton 16 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Apr 2025

    The government is expanding a scheme to enable people to access healthcare in the community or closer to their homes...

    • Fit for Work
    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions

    Computer says no: IT woes giving employees sleepless nights

    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025

    Technology remains one of the biggest stressors in the workplace, a poll has argued, with more than half of workers...

    • Foreign language training
    • Latest News
    • Global mobility

    Global employees being relocated left feeling unsupported – poll

    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025

    There is often a disconnect in global organisations between how well HR thinks it is supporting employees being relocated and...

    • Cancer
    • Latest News
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Returning to work top concern for employees with cancer

    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025

    Returning to work is the top ‘practical’ concern for employees going through a cancer diagnosis, research has found.
    The poll...

    • Dispute resolution
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Birmingham bin strike to continue as ‘totally inadequate’ offer rejected

    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 15 Apr 2025

    Birmingham’s month-long bin strike is set to continue after bin workers yesterday voted “overwhelmingly” to reject an offer by the...

    • Disability
    • Latest News
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Access to Work backlogs and delays costing businesses dear

    by Nic Paton 14 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Apr 2025

    Businesses employing disabled people are complaining they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government, and fear they...

    • Fit for Work
    • Stress
    • Stress

    Nearly half did not take even one full week’s holiday last year – poll

    by Nic Paton 14 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Apr 2025

    Nearly half of UK employees (43%) did not take even a full week off work last year, a survey has...

    • Fit for Work
    • Latest News
    • Sickness absence management

    Government urged to boost workplace support for women’s health

    by Nic Paton 11 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 11 Apr 2025

    Employers and workplace health professionals are urging the government to do more to encourage employers to invest in support for...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Diabetes

    Warning of diabetes risk for workplace drivers

    by Nic Paton 11 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 11 Apr 2025

    Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those...

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