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by Hannah Vickery 29 Oct 2013

Research

Asthma attack
  • Fit for Work
  • Research
  • Respiratory

First ‘game-changing’ new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years

by Nic Paton
29 Nov 2024

The first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years has been developed by researchers, in a move that is being hailed as ‘game-changing’ for patients. An injection given during…

Workplace harm
  • Research
  • Health and safety
  • Latest News

Better reporting needed as scale of workplace harm revealed

by Rob Moss
31 Oct 2024

Charity calls for clear reporting protocols after report finds only 51% of global workers experiencing workplace harm reported the incident.

Child benefit
  • Research
  • Health surveillance
  • Sickness absence management

Ditching two-child benefit gap would narrow health inequalities – research

by Nic Paton
12 Aug 2024

Reducing child poverty in England, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap, would significantly boost child health and narrow general regional health inequalities, finds research.

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Clinical governance

Surrey Police and Sussex Police badges on a police car bonnet
  • Blood pressure
  • Stress
  • Clinical governance

CPD: Occupational health in police and fire and rescue services

by Dan Gillard
3 Oct 2024

What does an occupational health service in police and fire and rescue services look like and what should it include?

NHS signage
  • Clinical governance
  • NHS
  • OH service delivery

CPD activities: Developing an NHS OH service

by Anne Harriss
9 Sep 2024

Our CPD article considers the challenges of developing an occupational health service for NHS staff, some of which are also relevant to in-house OH services at other organisations. These CPD…

A busy community
  • OH education and training
  • Clinical governance
  • OH service delivery

‘An honour and privilege’ – what becoming a Queen’s Nurse means for OH

by Neil Loach
29 Aug 2024

Leading OH nurse and academic Neil Loach will this autumn receive a singular accolade – becoming a Queen’s Nurse (QN), one of fewer than 50 OHNs to be celebrated in…

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Continuing professional development

Working from home
  • Fit for Work
  • Coronavirus
  • Mental health conditions

CPD activities: Learning from the experiences of working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic

by Anne Harriss
5 Dec 2024

These CPD activities, developed by Professor Anne Harriss, are designed to accompany this article by Charlotte E Hall on exploring the experiences of, and lessons from, working from home during…

Working from home
  • Coronavirus
  • Mental health conditions
  • Sickness absence management

CPD: Exploring the experiences of working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic

by Charlotte E Hall
5 Dec 2024

The sudden shift to working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic was a profound and destablising experience for many. PhD student Charlotte E Hall analyses some of the health and…

Discussing a business case
  • Fit for Work
  • OH service delivery
  • Sickness absence management

CPD activities: Invest to save – making the business case for spending on OH

by Anne Harriss
12 Nov 2024

These CPD activities, developed by Professor Anne Harriss, accompany Elaine Kerr’s article ‘Invest to save – making the business case for spending on OH’. They should help occupational health professionals…

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Disability

Disabled worker
  • Disability
  • Latest News
  • Return to work and rehabilitation

Access to Work backlogs and delays costing businesses dear

by Nic Paton
14 Apr 2025

Businesses employing disabled people are complaining they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government, and fear they may as a result have to let these staff go.…

Driving
  • Fit for Work
  • Disability
  • Diabetes

Warning of diabetes risk for workplace drivers

by Nic Paton
11 Apr 2025

Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those who drive for a living have double the risk of developing…

NHS
  • Fit for Work
  • NHS
  • Disability

NHS could go door-to-door to tackle ill-health worklessness

by Nic Paton
7 Apr 2025

Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the government’s plans to create a ‘neighbourhood health service’, it has…

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Health surveillance

Colds at work
  • Fit for Work
  • Health surveillance
  • Respiratory

Tool developed for employers to calculate cost of respiratory illness

by Nic Paton
28 Apr 2025

A tool has been developed to help businesses calculate the financial impact of respiratory illnesses within their workforce. The interactive tool, developed by pharmaceutical company Pfizer in partnership with the think-tank…

Workplace wellbeing
  • Fit for Work
  • Financial wellbeing
  • Health surveillance

Why employers must do more to support all four ‘pillars’ of wellbeing

by Debra Clark
24 Apr 2025

There is still too often a disconnect between how concerned employers say they are about employee health and wellbeing and what they are prepared to do about it – and…

NHS
  • Fit for Work
  • NHS
  • Disability

NHS could go door-to-door to tackle ill-health worklessness

by Nic Paton
7 Apr 2025

Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the government’s plans to create a ‘neighbourhood health service’, it has…

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Mental health and stress

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Musculoskeletal disorders

Gen X exercise
  • Fit for Work
  • Disability
  • Latest News

Gen X storing up health problems by failing to exercise

by Nic Paton
28 Mar 2025

Workers in their forties and fifties are becoming less likely to do regular exercise, so potentially storing up health problems for the future, research has suggested. The survey of ‘Gen…

Workers in an office block
  • Fit for Work
  • NHS
  • Disability

Keep Britain Working review urging employers to ‘tell us what works’

by Nic Paton
21 Mar 2025

The Mayfield review is urging employers and workplace health professionals to engage with it about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to healthcare interventions.

Lagos
  • 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

More than half of adults globally and a third of children and adolescents will be overweight or experiencing obesity by 2050, according to a shocking new prediction. The forecast, published…

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OH employment law

Surrey Police and Sussex Police badges on a police car bonnet
  • Blood pressure
  • Stress
  • Clinical governance

CPD: Occupational health in police and fire and rescue services

by Dan Gillard
3 Oct 2024

What does an occupational health service in police and fire and rescue services look like and what should it include?

Firefighters occupational health
  • Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Health surveillance

CPD activities: Occupational health in police and fire and rescue services

by Anne Harriss
3 Oct 2024

Understand more about what an OH service in the emergency services, including police and fire and rescue, should include.

Aching hand disability
  • Disability
  • Employment law
  • Disability discrimination

Justice department to pay out £27,000 after disability ruling

by Adam McCulloch
4 Sep 2024

Employment judge Bedeau found Hulya Findik’s claims of discrimination because of a failure in the duty to make reasonable adjustments to be well-founded.

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OH service delivery

Workplace wellbeing
  • Fit for Work
  • Financial wellbeing
  • Health surveillance

Why employers must do more to support all four ‘pillars’ of wellbeing

by Debra Clark
24 Apr 2025

There is still too often a disconnect between how concerned employers say they are about employee health and wellbeing and what they are prepared to do about it – and…

UK workers
  • Fit for Work
  • Disability
  • Latest News

Keep Britain Working: government told it must embrace ‘ambitious reforms’

by Nic Paton
21 Mar 2025

If the government is serious about stemming the flow of those suffering with ill health from leaving the labour market, it will need to embrace ‘ambitious reforms’, a think thank…

Workers in an office block
  • Fit for Work
  • NHS
  • Disability

Keep Britain Working review urging employers to ‘tell us what works’

by Nic Paton
21 Mar 2025

The Mayfield review is urging employers and workplace health professionals to engage with it about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to healthcare interventions.

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Return to work and rehabilitation

Commuters
  • Counselling
  • Latest News
  • Return to work and rehabilitation

Data highlights positive link between group income support and return to work

by Nic Paton
14 May 2025

Nearly three-quarters of workers (72%) who had to take time off for illness last year but were also working for an employer offering group income support, managed successfully to return…

Healthcare stress
  • Fit for Work
  • NHS
  • Mental health conditions

Healthcare workers prioritise mental health support in new jobs

by Nic Paton
12 May 2025

Three-quarters of healthcare workers (76%) prioritise access to mental health support when evaluating job opportunities, a poll has argued. The Randstad 2025 Workmonitor of more than 26,000 workers across 35…

Colds at work
  • Fit for Work
  • Health surveillance
  • Respiratory

Tool developed for employers to calculate cost of respiratory illness

by Nic Paton
28 Apr 2025

A tool has been developed to help businesses calculate the financial impact of respiratory illnesses within their workforce. The interactive tool, developed by pharmaceutical company Pfizer in partnership with the think-tank…

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Sickness and absence management

Always-on working
  • Mental health conditions
  • Latest News
  • Sickness absence management

Four ways employers can reduce the risk of an always-on work environment

by Dr Cheryl Lythgoe
14 May 2025

With hybrid working and technology blurring the boundaries between home and work-life as never before, it is vital employers – and managers and HR – take the lead in ensuring…

Commuters
  • Counselling
  • Latest News
  • Return to work and rehabilitation

Data highlights positive link between group income support and return to work

by Nic Paton
14 May 2025

Nearly three-quarters of workers (72%) who had to take time off for illness last year but were also working for an employer offering group income support, managed successfully to return…

Period pain
  • Latest News
  • Sickness absence management
  • Reproductive health

Period pain and absence harm women’s pay and progression

by Nic Paton
13 May 2025

Four in 10 women feel that the impact of period pain and menstrual symptoms has knocked their pay and progression in the workplace, while women aged over 55 also lose…

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Wellbeing and health promotion

Healthcare stress
  • Fit for Work
  • NHS
  • Mental health conditions

Healthcare workers prioritise mental health support in new jobs

by Nic Paton
12 May 2025

Three-quarters of healthcare workers (76%) prioritise access to mental health support when evaluating job opportunities, a poll has argued. The Randstad 2025 Workmonitor of more than 26,000 workers across 35…

Colds at work
  • Fit for Work
  • Health surveillance
  • Respiratory

Tool developed for employers to calculate cost of respiratory illness

by Nic Paton
28 Apr 2025

A tool has been developed to help businesses calculate the financial impact of respiratory illnesses within their workforce. The interactive tool, developed by pharmaceutical company Pfizer in partnership with the think-tank…

Workplace wellbeing
  • Fit for Work
  • Financial wellbeing
  • Health surveillance

Why employers must do more to support all four ‘pillars’ of wellbeing

by Debra Clark
24 Apr 2025

There is still too often a disconnect between how concerned employers say they are about employee health and wellbeing and what they are prepared to do about it – and…

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