Health surveillance

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the dangers of poor infection prevention and control, especially in healthcare and care settings, the World Health Organization has emphasised.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Health Diagnostics discuss their initiative to introduce regular health checks for 9,000 NHS staff.

A new clinical statement on occupational asthma emphasises the importance of health surveillance and prompt specialist referral.

Hundreds of people have successfully had lung cancers spotted and diagnosed earlier through an NHS mobile lung screening programme, NHS England has said.

Occupational health and workplace wellbeing specialists are being urged to help inform a new 10-year plan for mental ill-health prevention.

The latest annual workplace health snapshot from the CIPD has shown employers could still be thinking more strategically about health and work.  

People who have had Covid-19 may be at increased risk of developing serious blood clots for six months following their infection.

Free Covid-19 testing for the majority of workers has now ended, but that doesn't mean testing won't still be beneficial to employers.

Sage research into Covid prevalence highlighted how important ‘choice’ over an individual’s work situation is for health outcomes, one of the government's top health experts has said.

More than two-thirds (68%) of UK shift workers feel the hours they work or the pattern of their roster is...

The TUC has warned business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng that workers’ safety is being put at risk because of confusion created...

A ‘gender health gap’ persists in the UK, with women less likely than men to receive ‘proper’ health monitoring and treatment.

There has been a significant reduction in deaths from hepatitis C, the government has said.

Occupational health professionals need to be proactive in supporting workers living with obesity to remain in work.

A charity has called for more action to improve lung health, as it found the UK has the worst death rate for lung conditions in western Europe.