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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.

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Occupational Health
    • Sleep

    Workplace bullying can affect partner’s sleep as much as the employee

    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025

    Bullying in the workplace bullying affects not only the employee’s sleep but their partner’s too, according to research.

    • Financial wellbeing
    • Reproductive health
    • Mental health

    Frontline staff should be trained to discuss health issues

    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025

    People working in public-facing roles should be trained to have conversations about physical and mental health with customers.

    • Benefits
    • Financial wellbeing
    • Counselling

    Flexible working and health insurance top employee priorities – poll

    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025

    Access to flexible working, paid ‘wellness days’, and health insurance or physical wellness programmes are employees' top priorities.

    • Blood pressure
    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer

    Brake pad dust more toxic than diesel exhaust emissions – research

    by Nic Paton 14 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Feb 2025

    The microscopic particles emitted from certain types of commonly fitted brake pads can be more toxic than those found in...

    • Blood pressure
    • Cancer
    • Cardiac

    Employees able to get weight loss jabs through work for first time

    by Nic Paton 14 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Feb 2025

    Employees are set to be able to get access to weight loss jabs through their workplace health, under a plan...

    • Health & Safety Executive
    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety

    HSE new guidance to protect against hospital nitrous oxide exposure

    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025

    Guidance to protect midwives from excessive nitrous oxide exposure has been published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
    The...

    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health

    Alcohol deaths in the UK at all-time high, as charity urges new approach

    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025

    Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK have reached an all-time high, official figures have shown, with a charity calling for a...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Health surveillance

    Cases of tuberculosis in England continue to rise – UKHSA

    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025

    Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in England increased by 13% last year, compared to 2023, the latest figures from the UK...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Occupational Health

    Health professionals urged to prioritise work as a health outcome

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    Health professionals are being urged to adopt five key principles designed to embed, and promote, the idea that access to...

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Fit for Work

    Childhood mental ill health costs employers £24bn and workers £1tn

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    Childhood mental ill health results in life-long impacts, research has argued, including costing employers £24bn a year and future employees...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Reproductive health

    Endometriosis can leave women on lower wage and even out of work – ONS

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    Having endometriosis can significantly reduce a woman’s employment income for anything up to five years after her diagnosis, and affect...

    • Benefits
    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health

    Half more likely to choose an employer offering health benefits – poll

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    More than half (56%) of UK workers say they are now more likely to accept a job with an employer...

    • Fit for Work
    • Conditions
    • Cancer

    World Cancer Day: Workers with cancer feel unsupported and alone

    by Nic Paton 3 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Feb 2025

    Ahead of World Cancer Day, more than seven out of 10 employees (71%) living with cancer say they don’t get...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health

    Child physiotherapy in crisis – with lifelong health consequences

    by Nic Paton 31 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 31 Jan 2025

    Intense pressure on paediatric physiotherapy, with children often waiting far longer for treatment than they should, risks causing lifelong health...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Better access to OH could be key to reducing UK’s ill health worklessness – report

    by Nic Paton 31 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 31 Jan 2025

    Enabling much more “comprehensive” access to occupational health expertise could be one of the keys to reducing ill health-related worklessness...

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