Noel O'Reilly

The response to the government’s consultation on its plans for a ‘fit note’ to reform the Med3 sick note is...

Review finds £555m could be saved and patient satisfaction improved if the NHS looked after its employees. Noel O'Reilly reports.

The judge: Gail CottonGail Cotton (MBA RGN OHND CMIOSH) is head of OH and fitness at Leicestershire Fire & Rescue...

A review of the health and wellbeing of NHS staff has revealed high levels of sickness absence and called for...

Therese Procter, HR director at Tesco, talks to Noel O'Reilly about her commitment to employee health and wellbeing.

Tesco is the UK’s largest retailer, with more than 470,000 employees across 14 countries. Noel O’Reilly talks to HR director...

Business in the Community has launched a campaign that aims to make employee wellbeing a boardroom-level issue in the workplace. Noel O'Reilly reports.

Is employee wellbeing becoming a board-level issue? Corporate responsibility group Business in the Community (BITC) thinks so, and believes senior managers are finally coming round to the idea that healthy staff can help produce healthy profits. Noel O'Reilly reports.

Employers should appoint a trained ‘keyworker’ to contact employees who are on sick leave and help return them to work,...

With the government putting increasing pressure on employers to take responsibility for their workers' health, Noel O'Reilly argues that the time is right for HR to make the case for investing in effective absence management and workplace wellbeing.

Noel O'Reilly reports fom the RCN Society of OH Nursing Conference, 'Putting the Wellbeing into Work: the new agenda for OH', November 2008

Noel O'Reilly reports from the IRS Managing Absence and Attendance conference in November.

Educating and training line managers being critical to cutting absence rates and preventing unnecessary long-term sick leave, was a key...

How healthy is your workforce? Personnel Today took the plunge and jumped onto the 'I speak your health' machine.

GPs are a recurring theme in this month’s issue. While Dame Carol Black’s review proposes a broader role for GPs,...