Maintaining confidence in your workplace cleaning during coronavirus
Effective cleaning and decontamination are at the heart of keeping workplaces ‘Covid secure’ as well as, critically, in ensuring employees...
Healthcare staff need more information to treat ‘long Covid’
Research from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has argued that people suffering from ‘long Covid’ – or often...
Governments told to prioritise tackling rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions
Governments across Europe are being urged to create a comprehensive strategy to tackle rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions, which currently affect...
Occupational health ‘too expensive’ and complicated, complain employers
Employers do not use occupational health because it is too expensive and too complicated, because they have had their fingers...
Fewer staff taking time off for mental health, poll finds
The propotion of workers taking time off because of poor mental health has fallen to 28% from 36% last year,...
Guidance on providing support following a suicide in primary care
SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has collaborated with the Louise Tebboth Foundation to launch a report on providing care...
‘Compelling case’ for weekly Covid testing of NHS staff, say MPs
MPs have said there is a ‘compelling case’ for weekly testing of NHS staff to stop the health service becoming...
Sickness toll of first wave of Covid-19 on NHS staff is revealed
Covid-19 caused nearly 341,000 days of sickness absence among NHS staff in May, figures from NHS Digital have revealed –...
Warning that a fifth of adults might need mental health support post pandemic
The government and the NHS must ‘prepare now’ to meet increased need for mental health support – for as many...
Mouth lesions and skin rashes could be another sign of Covid-19
Oral lesions and skin rashes could be another potential symptom of Covid-19 for clinicians and healthcare professionals to look out...
Wellbeing and health promotion
Organisations invited to take part in presenteeism study
Notttingham Trent University has launched a study that seeks to understand ‘presenteeism’ and why people continue to work while unwell....
Fewer eye tests during pandemic means staff risk serious eye problems
Missed eye tests during the lockdown and reduced optometrist capacity could mean serious eye conditions including glaucoma and macular generation...
Working from home: four in five develop musculoskeletal pain
Poor home working set-ups could be causing thousands of workers discomfort, with four in five who began working remotely in...
Sickness absence management
Healthcare staff need more information to treat ‘long Covid’
Research from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has argued that people suffering from ‘long Covid’ – or often...
Governments told to prioritise tackling rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions
Governments across Europe are being urged to create a comprehensive strategy to tackle rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions, which currently affect...
Fewer staff taking time off for mental health, poll finds
The propotion of workers taking time off because of poor mental health has fallen to 28% from 36% last year,...
Musculoskeletal disorders
Governments told to prioritise tackling rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions
Governments across Europe are being urged to create a comprehensive strategy to tackle rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions, which currently affect...
NHS pledges ‘long Covid’ sufferers access to specialist support and rehabilitation
People suffering so-called ‘long Covid’ symptoms months after contracting the virus are to be offered specialist help at NHS clinics...
Musculoskeletal care and occupational health: only for more ‘enlightened’ employers?
The good news is musculoskeletal care for working-age people is widely considered a priority area by clinical commissioning groups, a...
Return to work and rehabilitation
Maintaining confidence in your workplace cleaning during coronavirus
Effective cleaning and decontamination are at the heart of keeping workplaces ‘Covid secure’ as well as, critically, in ensuring employees...
Healthcare staff need more information to treat ‘long Covid’
Research from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has argued that people suffering from ‘long Covid’ – or often...
Governments told to prioritise tackling rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions
Governments across Europe are being urged to create a comprehensive strategy to tackle rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions, which currently affect...
Mental health and stress
Fewer staff taking time off for mental health, poll finds
The propotion of workers taking time off because of poor mental health has fallen to 28% from 36% last year,...
Guidance on providing support following a suicide in primary care
SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has collaborated with the Louise Tebboth Foundation to launch a report on providing care...
Warning that a fifth of adults might need mental health support post pandemic
The government and the NHS must ‘prepare now’ to meet increased need for mental health support – for as many...
