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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
    • Disability
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Call for ‘national reset’ to tackle ill-health worklessness

    by Nic Paton 3 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Jan 2025

    There needs to be ‘a national reset’ on workplace health during 2025, a think-tank has urged, with government and employers...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cardiac
    • Stroke

    AI-led algorithm being used to identify atrial fibrillation risk much earlier

    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025

    Some 2,000 people have taken part in a ground-breaking trial to test an algorithm that can help doctors identify people...

    • Fit for Work
    • Dental care
    • Sickness absence management

    People unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ price hikes

    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025

    People up and down the country are being left unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ increases in private fees,...

    • NHS
    • Respiratory
    • Sickness absence management

    Flu hospitalisations surge, as NHS warns over festive gatherings

    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024

    Cases of flu serious enough to lead to hospitalisation are surging and are only likely to get worse as people...

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

    Warning of ‘catastrophic’ rise in alcohol deaths in England

    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024

    There has been “a catastrophic” 42% rise in deaths from alcohol in England in the past four years, a charity...

    • Fit for Work
    • OH service delivery
    • Sickness absence management

    Workplace health support: employees face ‘line management lottery’ of access

    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024

    UK employees are facing a ‘line management lottery’ when it comes to workplace health support, an analysis has suggested.
    The...

    • Fit for Work
    • Sickness absence management
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Shift-work employers urged to prioritise sleep and fatigue management

    by Nic Paton 18 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 18 Dec 2024

    Employees need to be proactively managing worker sleep and fatigue – especially with employees who are working nights and other...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Health surveillance

    Health inequalities: cities present deprivation challenges, warns CMO Whitty

    by Nic Paton 16 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 16 Dec 2024

    The UK’s cities present “a range of health opportunities and challenges”, with often high levels of entrenched deprivation, health inequalities,...

    • Fit for Work
    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management

    Half admit to self-diagnosing health online – poll

    by Nic Paton 13 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 13 Dec 2024

    Nearly half of Britons admit to having self-diagnosed their health, including using online resources, at least once in the past...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Sickness absence management

    Bowel cancer cases surging in younger people, especially in England – study

    by Nic Paton 13 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 13 Dec 2024

    Bowel cancer diagnoses are increasingly being seen in younger people, with some of the steepest global increases happening in England,...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Long Covid

    Long Covid costing UK plc billions in lost productivity – study

    by Nic Paton 10 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 10 Dec 2024

    The number of working days lost to long Covid could be costing the UK economy billions of pounds every year...

    • Fit for Work
    • Blood pressure
    • Cardiac

    NHS to test return-to-work ‘accelerators’ as part of tackling ill-health worklessness

    by Nic Paton 9 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Dec 2024

    The NHS is to test the effectiveness of various health interventions in getting people back into work or keeping them...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability
    • Disability

    Four in 10 with disabilities or health conditions missing out due to access issues

    by Nic Paton 9 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Dec 2024

    Four out of 10 workers with disabilities, chronic long-term health conditions or who are neurodivergent have missed out on events...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    Call for mandatory OH, as half who fall ill leave work within a year

    by Nic Paton 9 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Dec 2024

    A think-tank has urged the government to make access to occupational health mandatory for large employers as part of its...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • OH service delivery

    Get Britain Working: SOM calls for local OH involvement

    by Nic Paton 6 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 6 Dec 2024

    Occupational health professionals need to be included in local work and health strategies to support people living with ill health...

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