People struggling with breathing difficulties are being forced to make as many as five trips to A&E before bringing their...
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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Government-backed research is looking at how people living with dementia can be better supported to stay living independently.
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The economy could be boosted by more than 65 million working hours each year if employee assistance programmes (EAPs) were...
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If the government is serious about stemming the flow of those suffering with ill health from leaving the labour market,...
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The Mayfield review is urging employers and workplace health professionals to engage with it about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to healthcare interventions.
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Half of employees say they have cried because of work issues, and 58% have considered quitting their job as a...
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Some 37,000 people off work because of long-term sickness have successfully been removed from NHS waiting lists and helped back...
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One in four young people considering leaving work because of mental ill health
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonAs many as one in four young people have considered leaving the workforce in the past year, with mental ill...
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‘Significant’ gap between what employers and employees expect from health benefits
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonThere is a “significant” gap in perceptions and expectations around health and wellbeing benefits between employers and employees, a survey...
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People with mental ill health need to be better supported at work rather than “written off”, the Society of Occupational...
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As many as one in seven NHS staff (14.38%) experienced physical violence from patients, their relatives or other members of...
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More than one in 10 organisations (13%) have been involved in employment tribunals relating to neurodiversity, worrying new research has...
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Long hours, irregular shift patterns, stress and anxiety are all making it harder for workers to maintain healthy eating habits,...
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The scrapping of NHS England raises questions over the training of healthcare workers in critical areas such as infection control and hospital-acquired infections.
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A fifth of bereaved employees (21%) would have liked more time off to manage and work through their grief.