Health technology integration in the workplace is moving at pace, and is changing how companies think about and implement employee...
OH service delivery
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Occupational health provision needs to be made more accessible to smaller organisations to help increase the employment rate among those...
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Developing a workplace mental health checklist
North American academics have developed a checklist to help line managers recognise changes in... -
Disappearing spires – why have OH university courses dropped by half this year?
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonAs the new academic year gets underway, shock new statistics have revealed that university occupational health courses are down by...
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NHS occupational health services cannot be sustained against a backdrop of continuing annual reductions in funding, occupational medicine and occupational...
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A study into drivers working as part of the “gig economy” has highlighted the importance of businesses treating the management...
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A healthcare provider has recently been fined more than half-a-million pounds because its internal occupational health service was not deemed...
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Occupational health can offer a huge variety of career and development routes and opportunities. The Society of Occupational Medicine is...
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Why a Brexit-fuelled government collapse may be bad news for occupational health
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonWhatever you may feel about Brexit, there is an argument that occupational health practitioners should be willing and hoping Theresa...
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has warned that it is seeing a “significant” increase in the number of European...
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When a teenage apprentice posted suicidal thoughts on social media, his employer was alerted to the need for better communication...
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The organisational culture and environment plays a critical role in supporting and sustaining effective use of wellbeing technology at work....
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A cloud hovers over occupational health sustainability due to an ageing workforce and service users’ reluctance to fund the education...
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Asbestos in schools remains a live issue and occupational health practitioners have a role to play both in schools directly...
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Will a united body put the future in the hands of occupational health nurses?
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonThe decision in October by the Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners (AOHNP) to merge with the Faculty of Occupational...