Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK have reached an all-time high, official figures have shown, with a charity calling for a...
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Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in England increased by 13% last year, compared to 2023, the latest figures from the UK...
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Health professionals are being urged to adopt five key principles designed to embed, and promote, the idea that access to...
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Childhood mental ill health results in life-long impacts, research has argued, including costing employers £24bn a year and future employees...
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Having endometriosis can significantly reduce a woman’s employment income for anything up to five years after her diagnosis, and affect...
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More than half (56%) of UK workers say they are now more likely to accept a job with an employer...
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Ahead of World Cancer Day, more than seven out of 10 employees (71%) living with cancer say they don’t get...
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Intense pressure on paediatric physiotherapy, with children often waiting far longer for treatment than they should, risks causing lifelong health...
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Better access to OH could be key to reducing UK’s ill health worklessness – report
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonEnabling much more “comprehensive” access to occupational health expertise could be one of the keys to reducing ill health-related worklessness...
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With hospitals and workplaces struggling to cope with this winter’s surge in flu and respiratory viruses, a charity has called...
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The government’s Keep Britain Working review is an “opportunity to start a national reset on workforce health”, a leading think-tank has said.
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Keep Britain Working review gets under way, with major reforms due this spring
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonMinisters launch a promised independent review into how employers can be better supported to employ people with disabilities and health conditions.
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More than eight out of 10 employers (82%) agree they play an important role in helping employees return to work...
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The surge we’ve seen in cases of flu this winter poses an “unprecedented” workplace and public health challenge, an occupational...
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Blue Monday is an opportunity to review workplace mental health support
by Debra Clarkby Debra ClarkIt may be something of an artificial calendar marker, but ‘Blue Monday’ today is nevertheless an opportunity for employers to...