Disability

A combination of the pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and poor retirement saving is forcing more and more people to work...

Occupational health practitioners could play an important role in the government’s WorkWell pilots.

With the dust now settling on this week’s health and disability white paper, what is it actually proposing for occupational health? Nic Paton reports.

Occupational health practitioners and providers have applauded the government’s ‘unprecedented’ focus on expanding access to OH in this week’s Budget...

A call has been made for more to be done to help people with disabilities work safely and healthily from home.

The extreme fatigue and 'brain fog' that people with long Covid can experience may be down to the virus causing changes in the brain structure.

What is functional neurological disorder and how might it affect employees? Everything occupational health teams need to know.

More than half of people out of work since the pandemic because of long-term sickness are aged over 50, according...

There needs to be a shift from treating people when they become too ill to work, to preventing them from getting ill in the first place, a group of MPs have been told

People who experience long Covid following only a mild bout of Covid-19 are likely to see their symptoms resolve within a year.

Toxic contaminants in fires can be directly linked to increased rates of cancer and mental health issues among firefighters, research has suggested.

Millions of often working-age people across the UK are still experiencing long-term, potentially debilitating, health symptoms following a Covid-19 infection...

A stone mason who contracted silicosis after allegedly being exposed to dust while working on Elgin Cathedral in Scotland has accepted a £3.5m compensation settlement.

Nearly one in four people with the lung condition Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is waiting a staggering five years...

ONS data shows long Covid is leading to a surge of people falling out of work, taking early retirement or on long-term sick leave.