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.
Psychiatrists have called on the government to put in place better mental health support for NHS frontline staff.
The call...
The government is expanding a scheme to enable people to access healthcare in the community or closer to their homes...
Technology remains one of the biggest stressors in the workplace, a poll has argued, with more than half of workers...
Nearly half of UK employees (43%) did not take even a full week off work last year, a survey has...
Employers and workplace health professionals are urging the government to do more to encourage employers to invest in support for...
Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those...
More than a quarter of workers (28%) believe their employer is ineffective at managing workplace stress, according to a poll....
Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the...
Rising levels of sickness are taking a toll on many workplaces, research has suggested, with employers reporting increased absence affecting...
The number of working days lost to asthma and respiratory illnesses has soared since the pandemic, with a 153% increase...
Union body the TUC has backed calls to create a national database to map the presence of asbestos in buildings....
Four research projects aiming to reduce health-related economic inactivity and ill-health worklessness are to get a £7m cash injection between...
Workers in their forties and fifties are becoming less likely to do regular exercise, so potentially storing up health problems...
More than eight in 10 shift workers report poor mental health, along with seven out of 10 hospitality workers, research has suggested.
Nearly seven in 10 builders have suspected a colleague is seriously depressed yet have felt it was ‘too difficult’ to...
