Sickness absence management

Increasingly intense working days are putting people at greater risk of burnout, according to research by the TUC.
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The government could save £144m a year, and double recovery rates for people with depression and debt, by better joining...

Reforming tax incentives to encourage employers to invest more in occupational health provision could cost the Exchequer ‘tens of millions’...

Occupational health providers will be directly contacted by the government over the next three months to feed into its twin...

After an employee or colleague is bereaved, there can often be an assumption they will need access to bereavement counselling....

Got employees spread across different countries? You’ll probably want to match their health and wellbeing benefits, right? Not necessarily, argues...

The vast majority of the general public are unaware of the possible warning signs of blood cancer, academics have warned....

Occupational health practitioners in London need to be on the alert for potential signs of measles among young workers, especially...

More than half (54%) of people feel the government should provide tax incentives to firms that offer employee health benefits.

A new approach is needed to tackle high levels of burnout among healthcare workers, including better use of occupational health...

Early intervention by occupational health can slash sickness absence by nearly two-thirds, a report has suggested, emphasising the benefit of...

There have been nearly 100,000 more deaths involving heart conditions and stroke than usual in England since the pandemic began.

Barely one in 10 of disabled employees (9%) reports having had a positive experience of occupational health, a damning report has concluded.

The NHS’ network of ‘community diagnostic centres’ (CDCs) has now carried out some four million health checks, tests and scans...

Many people with long Covid experience greater levels of illness and fatigue than those with cancer-related anaemia or severe kidney...