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.
The NHS is to test the effectiveness of various health interventions in getting people back into work or keeping them...
A think-tank has urged the government to make access to occupational health mandatory for large employers as part of its...
Occupational health professionals need to be included in local work and health strategies to support people living with ill health...
People at risk of getting severely ill with the flu this winter are being urged to get vaccinated as soon...
These CPD activities, developed by Professor Anne Harriss, are designed to accompany this article by Charlotte E Hall on exploring...
OH professionals need to recognise that changing social habits – especially people listening to content through headphones at work or...
The government has committed to developing and publishing a men’s health strategy focused on heart disease and strokes, prostate and...
Supply chain and operations consultant Guy Redhead is among one of the millions of people in the UK who has...
Extreme weather is not only a physical and infrastructure risk to organisations, but a mental health one too, research has...
The first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years has been developed by researchers, in a move that is...
Occupational health professionals have slammed this week’s Get Britain Working white paper as “very disappointing”, not least for completely overlooking...
With burnout, stress and anxiety surging in many workplaces, Mike Hay outlines five practical ways that employers can help.
As...
A total of 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness in the past year (2023-24), figures from the Health...
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that analyses ECG readings during routine heart scans could identify people at risk of type...
More than a third of chartered accountants (36%) say they have suffered from insomnia or disrupted sleep over the past...
