The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued guidance for workers installing stone worktops on how to mitigate risk around...
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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With NHS trusts struggling to cope as cases of winter flu soar, a study has warned that respiratory infections cost...
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Workplaces are being urged to revisit and refresh their first aid practices and approaches as UK plc reopens for business...
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There has been a “troubling” surge in the number of people being hospitalised because of vitamin deficiencies, according to an...
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There needs to be ‘a national reset’ on workplace health during 2025, a think-tank has urged, with government and employers...
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AI-led algorithm being used to identify atrial fibrillation risk much earlier
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonSome 2,000 people have taken part in a ground-breaking trial to test an algorithm that can help doctors identify people...
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People up and down the country are being left unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ increases in private fees,...
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Cases of flu serious enough to lead to hospitalisation are surging and are only likely to get worse as people...
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There has been “a catastrophic” 42% rise in deaths from alcohol in England in the past four years, a charity...
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Workplace health support: employees face ‘line management lottery’ of access
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonUK employees are facing a ‘line management lottery’ when it comes to workplace health support, an analysis has suggested.
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Employees need to be proactively managing worker sleep and fatigue – especially with employees who are working nights and other...
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Health inequalities: cities present deprivation challenges, warns CMO Whitty
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonThe UK’s cities present “a range of health opportunities and challenges”, with often high levels of entrenched deprivation, health inequalities,...
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Nearly half of Britons admit to having self-diagnosed their health, including using online resources, at least once in the past...
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Bowel cancer cases surging in younger people, especially in England – study
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonBowel cancer diagnoses are increasingly being seen in younger people, with some of the steepest global increases happening in England,...
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The number of working days lost to long Covid could be costing the UK economy billions of pounds every year...