Stress

Worries about Covid-19 are affecting wellbeing as employees work from home, but loneliness and having to juggle domestic responsibilities with...

Almost one in five people who test positive for Covid-19 are diagnosed with a psychiatric condition within the following three...

Millions of people in the UK feel that poor sleep is negatively affecting their mental health every night.
A report...

A total of 38.8 million working days were lost because of work-related illness and workplace injury in 2019/20, with more...

Personal levels of resilience may help to determine how well, or not, an individual copes with the mental and emotional...

Doctors in England have little or no confidence in the NHS being able to cope this winter, according to a...

The coronavirus pandemic is increasing work-related stress across both the UK and Europe, a survey has concluded.
Nearly two-thirds (64%)...

We know mental ill health affects most people at some point in their lives. But Dr Nick Taylor argues employers...

Employee burnout reached a two-year high in August, as staff battled a cocktail of hardships including social isolation, enforced working...

The propotion of workers taking time off because of poor mental health has fallen to 28% from 36% last year,...

SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has collaborated with the Louise Tebboth Foundation to launch a report on providing care...

The government and the NHS must ‘prepare now’ to meet increased need for mental health support – for as many...

People suffering so-called ‘long Covid’ symptoms months after contracting the virus are to be offered specialist help at NHS clinics...

Employers need to take more responsibility for the ‘psychological contract’ they have with their employees, especially in occupations affected by...

A recent SOM/Royal College of Nursing webinar offered occupational health practitioners valuable advice on how to manage Covid-19 outbreaks as...