Work can have a significant impact on people’s mental health. Employers can help to foster a mentally healthy workplace, for example by taking action to prevent and manage stress and training line managers on mental wellbeing.
Emily Pearson highlights three common reasons why your employee wellbeing strategy may not be working and how to address them.
As the government plans to crack down on economic inactivity, how should organisations support employees with complex health needs?
The cost to employers of poor mental health is now £51bn a year, research has calculated, a decline on what...
Employers, employees and insurers have a shared responsibility for prevening burnout in workplaces, writes Dr Tarun Gupta.
A new £16m NHS workforce wellbeing programme has been launched in England and will feature initiatives that have been developed by staff.
More than half of workers struggling with burnout do so alone research for this week's Mental Health Awareness Week finds.
Employee assistance programmes are under huge strain. What is their role in employee wellbeing, and what should employers do?
Between 600 and 1,200 mothers experience postpartum psychosis each year in England and Wales, a royal college has warned.
The...
Women are 40% more likely to experience depression in the perimenopause than those who aren’t experiencing any menopausal symptoms.
Burnout in healthcare not only poses a major threat to health but can also threaten job performance. Properly managing burnout...
These CPD activities for occupational health professionals will help develop your knowledge around burnout risks in healthcare.
Wellbeing is like the water in a reservoir, it can constantly drain but there are also ways of topping it...
Rishi Sunak is set to announce plans to move responsibility for issuing fite notesfrom GPs to “specialist work and health professionals” in England.
Nearly a quarter of working-age adults will have been diagnosed with a major illness by 2040, a health think-tank has...
Why the link between musculoskeletal and mental health should be considered when developing workplace health support programmes.
