The nation’s health is in significant decline and regional health inequalities are soaring, worrying new research has suggested.
Occupational Health
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Employee assistance programmes, or EAPs, should be supporting workers, but the model does not always allow them to do so effectively.
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Letter urges the health secretary to continue to invest in NHS mental health hubs for health workers in England.
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Nearly half of the 3,700 Parliamentary staff employed by MPs experienced clinical stress similar to that of emergency service workers...
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Allowing self-referral into physiotherapy schemes before staff become too sick to work can significantly reduce sickness absence.
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A quarter of women working in UK offices feel they been shamed or pressured to return to work early when...
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Researchers are working to develop the world’s first vaccine against lung cancer, building on the ground-breaking Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
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Travel-associated mosquito-borne infections are returning to pre-pandemic levels, the UK government has warned.
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London Underground employees working in areas exposed to higher levels of fine dust also tend to report more episodes of...
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Employers are being urged to sign up to a workplace pledge to demonstrate their support for employees with migraine.
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The cost of work-related mental health conditions to the UK economy has doubled, according to AXA's annual Mind Health Index.
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A workplace physiotherapy provider has urged employers to promote activities to improve workers' bone health.
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A quarter (25%) of UK workers in ‘standing roles’, jobs like hairdressing, retail and hospitality, spend eight hours or more...
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More than two-thirds (69%) of Universal Credit claimants have mental or behavioural health disorders, and nearly half (48%) have musculoskeletal...
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NHS hospital costs could be reduced by as much as £15bn a year if half of the UK’s inactive adult...