Jean Raper, former chair of the Royal College of Nursing’s Society of Occupational Health Nursing group, course leader at Sheffield...
Nic Paton
Nic Paton
Nic Paton is consulting editor of OHW+. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for OHW+ and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.
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SOM adds to coronavirus return-to-work guidance with mental health toolkit
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonSOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has published a toolkit to help organisations and staff in managing work-relevant mental health...
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Confusion over medical assessments leaving Northern Ireland HGV drivers ‘unable to work’
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonAn anomaly over medical assessments has caused some HGV drivers in Northern Ireland to lose work during the coronavirus crisis,...
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Employers could face legal threat if workers return and catch Covid-19, expert warns
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonEmployers UK could risk facing legal action from employees who return to work and contract the Covid-19 virus, a health...
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The Constructing Better Health (CBH) occupational health scheme for the construction sector is being shut down, with the impact of...
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Staff shortages pose ‘large threat’ to future of occupational health provision, report warns
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonThe continuing shortage of qualified occupational health physicians and nurses poses “a potential large threat to the future of OH...
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With the focus within occupational health beginning to shift from the immediate healthcare challenges of managing Covid-19 to how workplaces...
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Almost a quarter of adults living under lockdown in the UK between March and April said they had experienced loneliness,...
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Coronavirus: will it be occupational health rather than the NHS that is overwhelmed post-lockdown?
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonAs thoughts turn to how the UK can gradually reopen for business post-lockdown, it is becoming all too clear that...
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Dr Anne de Bono, president of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, has said research is “urgently required” to gauge whether...
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Two workplace health bodies have given their support to the value of wearing face masks or coverings in public as...
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Coronavirus: a fifth ‘unsure’ about getting vaccinated even if one becomes available
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonDespite the massive death toll and disruption the UK has experienced from the coronavirus pandemic, nearly a fifth of people...
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How occupational health professionals can add value to workplace wellbeing
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonWith employers increasingly interested in wellbeing, and potentially prepared to spend money on interventions, a recent report from SOM has...
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Diabetes, men, drugs, and dementia – why occupational health faces a challenging future
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonBetween tackling the challenges of rising rates diabetes, men’s ill health, drugs and alcohol, and working-age dementia, occupational health practitioners...
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Coronavirus: NHS ‘urgently’ working to ramp up occupational health provision
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonThe NHS is “urgently” working to put in place extra occupational health provision for NHS workers during the coronavirus crisis,...