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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
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    People with breathing difficulties often making five trips to A&E

    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025

    People struggling with breathing difficulties are being forced to make as many as five trips to A&E before bringing their...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Disability

    Government dementia research to enable more independent living

    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025

    Government-backed research is looking at how people living with dementia can be better supported to stay living independently.
    Four new...

    • Counselling
    • Mental health conditions
    • Latest News

    Expanding EAPs to smaller firms could save UK plc millions – RSPH

    by Nic Paton 21 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Mar 2025

    The economy could be boosted by more than 65 million working hours each year if employee assistance programmes (EAPs) were...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Latest News

    Keep Britain Working: government told it must embrace ‘ambitious reforms’

    by Nic Paton 21 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Mar 2025

    If the government is serious about stemming the flow of those suffering with ill health from leaving the labour market,...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Disability

    Keep Britain Working review urging employers to ‘tell us what works’

    by Nic Paton 21 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Mar 2025

    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.

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Stress

    Half of employees have cried because of work pressures – poll

    by Nic Paton 19 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 19 Mar 2025

    Half of employees say they have cried because of work issues, and 58% have considered quitting their job as a...

    • Fit for Work
    • Latest News
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Targeted interventions can help long-term sick back to work – NHS pilot

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    Some 37,000 people off work because of long-term sickness have successfully been removed from NHS waiting lists and helped back...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    One in four young people considering leaving work because of mental ill health

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    As many as one in four young people have considered leaving the workforce in the past year, with mental ill...

    • Fit for Work
    • Benefits
    • Latest News

    ‘Significant’ gap between what employers and employees expect from health benefits

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    There is a “significant” gap in perceptions and expectations around health and wellbeing benefits between employers and employees, a survey...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Support, rather than write off, people with mental ill health, urges SOM

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    People with mental ill health need to be better supported at work rather than “written off”, the Society of Occupational...

    • NHS
    • Health and safety
    • Latest News

    One in seven NHS staff physically attacked last year

    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025

    As many as one in seven NHS staff (14.38%) experienced physical violence from patients, their relatives or other members of...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability
    • Disability discrimination

    One in 10 firms taken to tribunal because of neurodiversity conflicts

    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025

    More than one in 10 organisations (13%) have been involved in employment tribunals relating to neurodiversity, worrying new research has...

    • Obesity
    • Wellbeing and health promotion
    • Occupational Health

    One in six blames job for unhealthy eating

    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025

    Long hours, irregular shift patterns, stress and anxiety are all making it harder for workers to maintain healthy eating habits,...

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Scrapping NHS England could affect critical training, warn experts

    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025

    The scrapping of NHS England raises questions over the training of healthcare workers in critical areas such as infection control and hospital-acquired infections.

    • Compassionate leave
    • Parental bereavement leave
    • Mental health conditions

    Fifth of bereaved employees would have liked more time off work – poll

    by Nic Paton 10 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Mar 2025

    A fifth of bereaved employees (21%) would have liked more time off to manage and work through their grief.

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