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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.

    • Occupational Health
    • Obesity
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    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
    • Occupational Health

    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.

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    Focusing more on employee health could stop 100,000 falling out of work

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

    A more proactive approach to employee health could prevent 100,000 people from falling out of work over the next five...

    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Mental health: Five years on from pandemic, younger generations still struggling

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

    Five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on mental health and wellbeing is still being felt, especially on...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Coaching and mentoring

    DWP to deploy work coaches to tackle ill-health worklessness

    by Nic Paton 7 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Mar 2025

    The government is to roll out work coaches to enable more people out of work because of sickness or disability to regain access to employment.

    • Gender
    • Occupational Health
    • Reproductive health

    Employers need to improve support for women’s health

    by Nic Paton 7 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Mar 2025

    Employers need to be better at recognising, and supporting, the differing physical and mental health needs of women throughout their...

    • Blood pressure
    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer

    Half of adults globally set to be obese or overweight by 2050, warns shocking new study

    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025

    More than half of adults globally and a third of children and adolescents will be overweight or experiencing obesity by...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    One in three NHS doctors exhausted, putting patients at risk

    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025

    A third of NHS doctors (35%) are so tired that their ability to treat patients is impaired, according to a report from the Medical Defence Union.

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    MPs to address how workplaces can be made more healthy

    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025

    Parliamentarians come together in a new APPG to discuss how work, and workplaces, can be better used to make us healthier.

    • Occupational Health
    • Reproductive health
    • Latest News

    More ‘get’ endometriosis, yet it can still remain a taboo subject at work

    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025

    More and more people, both men and women, say they understand the challenges women face around endometriosis, yet it can...

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Financial services

    Finance leaders stressed and overworked – poll

    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025

    The UK’s finance leaders are stressed and overworked, a survey has concluded, with more than half (56%) saying they work...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Older workers suffering a ‘silent mental health crisis’

    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025

    A third of workers aged 55 and over (32%) have taken time off sick with poor mental health, with older...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Prioritising good mental health could kickstart UK plc – report

    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025

    Low pay, poor working conditions, air pollution and insecure housing all harm people’s mental health, a report has suggested, whereas...

    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health
    • Musculoskeletal disorders

    Investing in health key to kickstarting growth, argues think-tank

    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025

    Investing in people’s health, both physical and mental, is a key way the government will be able to stimulate sustained...

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