Occupational Health

A study into drivers working as part of the “gig economy” has highlighted the importance of businesses treating the management...

The coroner leading the Grenfell Tower fire inquest has urged the NHS to set up a long-term screening programme for...

Next month (October) sees the launch of the new Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing, the membership organisation that, it is...

Public Health England (PHE) has estimated that only one in 10 people will smoke in five years’ time, as the...

Calls made to employee assistance programmes (EAPs) by workers seeking help for a mental health issue have risen by almost...

Six in 10 younger workers think their current working conditions have an adverse effect on their health and wellbeing, highlighting...

Almost half (46%) of employees regularly turn up to their jobs feeling too tired to work, making them more prone...

Frontline NHS staff who refuse to have the flu vaccination this winter may be redeployed in order to protect patient...

Nearly half (48%) of people have experienced a mental health problem in their current job, yet only half of these...

Only half of adults would feel confident about offering first aid if they witnessed somebody falling unwell, according to the...

Most of us understand all too well we need to be less sedentary. But just being told you need to...

A healthcare provider has recently been fined more than half-a-million pounds because its internal occupational health service was not deemed...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a term that gets bandied around a lot, explains Christine Husbands. But what does it mean...

Occupational health can offer a huge variety of career and development routes and opportunities. The Society of Occupational Medicine is...

Amputation and return to work
The extent to which amputees integrate into normal living after losing a limb affects their...