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.
Health surveillance
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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Health Diagnostics discuss their initiative to introduce regular health checks for 9,000 NHS staff.
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A new clinical statement on occupational asthma emphasises the importance of health surveillance and prompt specialist referral.
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Hundreds of people have successfully had lung cancers spotted and diagnosed earlier through an NHS mobile lung screening programme, NHS England has said.
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Occupational health and workplace wellbeing specialists are being urged to help inform a new 10-year plan for mental ill-health prevention.
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The latest annual workplace health snapshot from the CIPD has shown employers could still be thinking more strategically about health and work.
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People who have had Covid-19 may be at increased risk of developing serious blood clots for six months following their infection.
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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.
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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.
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More than two-thirds (68%) of UK shift workers feel the hours they work or the pattern of their roster is...
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The TUC has warned business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng that workers’ safety is being put at risk because of confusion created...
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A ‘gender health gap’ persists in the UK, with women less likely than men to receive ‘proper’ health monitoring and treatment.
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There has been a significant reduction in deaths from hepatitis C, the government has said.
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Occupational health professionals need to be proactive in supporting workers living with obesity to remain in work.
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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.