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.
Cancer rates in people aged 25 to 49 increased by nearly a quarter (24%) from 1995 to 2019, according to...
More than a third of workers (37%) say they are working through pain as they cannot afford to take sick...
There has been a 40% rise in diagnoses of type 2 diabetes among younger people since 2016-17, a charity has...
Hybrid workers who split their time between the home and office tend to experience fewer work days lost to sickness,...
The Society of Occupational Medicine is urging major political parties to commit to introducing universal access to occupational health.
NHS heart and cardiac care waits in England have hit another grim record high, according to the charity the British...
Alcohol harm costs England £27.4bn a year, and this cost has risen 40% since 2003.
More than half a million more women have fallen out of the workplace because of sickness and ill health over...
The number of new strokes will increase by 51% from 100,000 to 151,000 by 2035, a charity has warned, costing...
Fit notes need to become more ‘dynamic’ to allow people off work because of ill health to be referred to...
Nearly a quarter of working-age adults will have been diagnosed with a major illness by 2040, a health think-tank has...
Current sickness absence and return-to-work policies are unfit for purpose for those living with long Covid, research has suggested.
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Waiting times for processing benefits and government compensation claims for mesothelioma patients have doubled within a year.
People with long Covid have tell-tale, distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood, which could potentially be targeted with...
Thousands of people worried about the risk of early or young-onset dementia are to be offered pioneering new blood tests.
