Research
High pressure work a key business risk for 95% of organisations
The majority of employers are now considering high pressure or high intensity work, which can have a detrimental effect on...
Study exposes mental ill health among remote rotational workers
A study has highlighted the impact remote rotational work can have on mental health, with a significant proportion of staff...
Liver cancer cases leap among men in Scotland
The rate of liver cancer diagnosis in the UK has doubled over the past two decades and is highest among...
Clinical governance
NMC launches consultation into proposed new SCPHN education standards
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched a public consultation on draft new education standards for specialist community public...
OHW+ a new home for your professional growth
Next month (May) will see the launch of OHW+, a new digital platform for Occupational Health & Wellbeing. With curated...
NHS to launch mental health hubs for health workers
The NHS is set to open 40 dedicated mental health support hubs for healthcare workers across England, which will offer...
Continuing professional development
CPD: supporting transgender people in work
In the second article in her two-part series, Dawn Wyvern looks at practical ways employers, with the help of occupational...
OHW+ a new home for your professional growth
Next month (May) will see the launch of OHW+, a new digital platform for Occupational Health & Wellbeing. With curated...
CPD: Transition period – supporting employees through gender transitioning
The process of gender transitioning is complex and not undertaken lightly. As Dawn Wyvern explains in the first of a...
Disability
Half of severe Covid patients also suffered injury to the heart
Injury to the heart has been found in half of Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital after suffering severe illness from...
‘Urgent need’ to address UK obesity amid Covid outcomes warning
There is an “urgent need” to address obesity levels in the UK, the Royal College of Physicians has warned, in...
Male ‘night owls’ more likely to retire early due to disability
Male ‘night owls’ face an increased risk of early retirement because of disability, a study has suggested.
According to a...
Health surveillance
Liver cancer cases leap among men in Scotland
The rate of liver cancer diagnosis in the UK has doubled over the past two decades and is highest among...
OH the key to helping employers understand, and support, less well-known conditions
Less common, or less well-known or understood, health conditions such as auto-immune diseases, ME, epilepsy and MS can often go...
Employers failing as keep workplaces safe as restrictions lift, warns TUC
As UK workplaces look gradually to open back up as lockdown restrictions are lifted, the TUC has warned that many...
Musculoskeletal disorders
OH the key to helping employers understand, and support, less well-known conditions
Less common, or less well-known or understood, health conditions such as auto-immune diseases, ME, epilepsy and MS can often go...
Four in 10 NHS staff unwell with work-related stress
The proportion of NHS staff feeling unwell as a result of work-related stress continued to rise last year, particularly in...
Home working linked to rise in musculoskeletal disorders
More than a third (37.7%) of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) cases were connected to work in 2020, compared with just 1.4%...
OH employment law
Barclays banker given £10k pay-out in toilet access case
A tribunal has found Barclays had failed to make reasonable adjustments for a banker who had Crohn's disease.
OHW+ a new home for your professional growth
Next month (May) will see the launch of OHW+, a new digital platform for Occupational Health & Wellbeing. With curated...
Putting workplace drug and alcohol testing in the spotlight
How effective is random drug and alcohol testing, especially outside the safety-critical environment? And with cannabis oils now complicating the...
OH service delivery
Pandemic leads to increase in ‘stress smoking’
More than half of smokers are ‘stress smoking’ or smoking more because of extra strain brought on by the Covid-19...
How businesses, and OH, can better support menopausal women
Menopausal women are the fastest growing demographic in the workplace, yet many struggle to manage the psychological and physiological changes...
NHS OH team wins plaudits for staff wellbeing work during Covid
The occupational health team at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is celebrating after the trust was crowned “Health and Wellbeing...
Return to work and rehabilitation
Expecting more from employers as we work through Covid-19
As workplaces gradually open back up, both in the UK and elsewhere around the world, employers are going to have...
A third receive mental health diagnosis after Covid-19
One in three Covid-19 patients have received a brain or psychiatric disorder diagnosis within six months of contracting the virus,...
Home health – managing mental ill health in an affordable housing provider
After affordable housing provider VIVID was formed from a merger of two organisations, sick days for mental ill health rocketed....
Sickness and absence management
How businesses, and OH, can better support menopausal women
Menopausal women are the fastest growing demographic in the workplace, yet many struggle to manage the psychological and physiological changes...
Home health – managing mental ill health in an affordable housing provider
After affordable housing provider VIVID was formed from a merger of two organisations, sick days for mental ill health rocketed....
OH the key to helping employers understand, and support, less well-known conditions
Less common, or less well-known or understood, health conditions such as auto-immune diseases, ME, epilepsy and MS can often go...
Wellbeing and health promotion
Pandemic leads to increase in ‘stress smoking’
More than half of smokers are ‘stress smoking’ or smoking more because of extra strain brought on by the Covid-19...
Rising screen use is risking long-term eye injuries for staff
After a year, for many of us, of being glued to our screens while working from home, reports of workers...
High pressure work a key business risk for 95% of organisations
The majority of employers are now considering high pressure or high intensity work, which can have a detrimental effect on...
