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Fit for Work

Fit for Work is a Government-funded service providing occupational health assessments on referral from the employee's GP or employer, where an employee is absent from work for at least four weeks. It also provides advice for employers, employees and GPs on matters relating to health and work.


    • Fit for Work
    • Counselling
    • Mental health conditions

    SOM guide emphasises value of OH support after a suicide

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024

    Occupational health can be a pivotal resource employers look to for help and guidance when responding to the death of...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Cost-of-living crisis ‘devastating’ for people with mental ill health – report

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024

    The cost-of-living crisis has been devastating for many people with mental health problems, a charity has warned.
    The report from...

    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    International working: supporting loneliness in a connected world

    by Sarah Dennis 9 Sep 2024
    by Sarah Dennis 9 Sep 2024

    For employees working away from home, especially abroad, loneliness and isolation can be a real issue, and can have an...

    • Fit for Work
    • E-cigarettes
    • Cancer

    Vaping as damaging to young people’s lung as smoking – study

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2024

    Vaping can cause as much damage to young people’s lungs as smoking, research has suggested.
    The study by a team...

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health conditions
    • Diabetes

    SOM guide to help OH better support driver health and wellbeing

    by Nic Paton 6 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 6 Sep 2024

    SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has published a guide for employers and occupational health professionals on supporting the health...

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health conditions
    • Sickness absence management

    Why unlocking your data is the key to tackling presenteeism

    by Karl Bennett and Tracey Paxton 3 Sep 2024
    by Karl Bennett and Tracey Paxton 3 Sep 2024

    While employers are increasingly waking up to the problem of presenteeism, too many still operate in state of blissful ignorance...

    • Fit for Work
    • Blood pressure
    • NHS

    NHS to pilot blood pressure checks at dentists and opticians

    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024

    People in parts of England will soon be able to get blood pressure checks at their dentist or optician under...

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    People increasingly being forced to budget for private healthcare

    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2024

    Britons are increasingly feeling they have to set money aside to pay for private healthcare because the NHS will not...

    • Fit for Work
    • Coronavirus
    • OH service delivery

    Delivering occupational health policies in prisons during the pandemic 

    by Priscilla Wong 2 Sep 2024
    by Priscilla Wong 2 Sep 2024

    Priscilla Wong, head of occupational health at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) examines how occupational health policies and interventions for...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cardiac
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Weekend lie-in good for heart health – research

    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024

    Having a lie-in at the weekend could actually be good for your heart health, new research has suggested.
    Catching up...

    • Fit for Work
    • Blood pressure
    • Cancer

    NHS Health Checks to be rolled out to workplaces

    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 30 Aug 2024

    More than 130,000 people across the country are to be offered NHS health ‘MOTs’ in the workplace from next month,...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Dementia

    Lung cancer vaccine and drug for Alzheimer’s herald new treatments

    by Nic Paton 23 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 23 Aug 2024

    Breakthrough treatments to tackle lung cancer and dementia are on the horizon, with a lung cancer vaccine now being tested...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Diabetes

    Eating just two slices of ham daily can raise risk of diabetes

    by Nic Paton 21 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 21 Aug 2024

    Eating meat, especially processed meat and unprocessed red meat – even as little as two slices of ham a day...

    • Fit for Work
    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Disability

    One in 10 with chronic pain at risk of opioid dependency

    by Nic Paton 14 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 14 Aug 2024

    As many as one in 10 adults prescribed opioids for chronic pain will go on to experience opioid dependency or...

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health conditions
    • OH service delivery

    Younger employees increasingly demanding workplace health benefits

    by Nic Paton 9 Aug 2024
    by Nic Paton 9 Aug 2024

    Younger employees – those aged 18 to 34 – are driving demand for workplace health benefits, a poll has suggested,...

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