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Mental health

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.


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    • Anxiety

    One in four young people considering leaving work because of mental ill health

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    As many as one in four young people have considered leaving the workforce in the past year, with mental ill...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Support, rather than write off, people with mental ill health, urges SOM

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    People with mental ill health need to be better supported at work rather than “written off”, the Society of Occupational...

    • Hybrid working
    • Stress
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    People feel less comfortable to ‘be themselves’ at work

    by Jo Faragher 11 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 11 Mar 2025

    There has been a decline in how ‘safe’ people feel at work, according to a new study by Mental Health First Aid England and Henley Business School.

    • Compassionate leave
    • Parental bereavement leave
    • Occupational Health

    Fifth of bereaved employees would have liked more time off work – poll

    by Nic Paton 10 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Mar 2025

    A fifth of bereaved employees (21%) would have liked more time off to manage and work through their grief.

    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health
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    Mental health: Five years on from pandemic, younger generations still struggling

    by Nic Paton 10 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Mar 2025

    Five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on mental health and wellbeing is still being felt, especially on...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    One in three NHS doctors exhausted, putting patients at risk

    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Mar 2025

    A third of NHS doctors (35%) are so tired that their ability to treat patients is impaired, according to a report from the Medical Defence Union.

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Financial services

    Finance leaders stressed and overworked – poll

    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025

    The UK’s finance leaders are stressed and overworked, a survey has concluded, with more than half (56%) saying they work...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Older workers suffering a ‘silent mental health crisis’

    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Feb 2025

    A third of workers aged 55 and over (32%) have taken time off sick with poor mental health, with older...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Prioritising good mental health could kickstart UK plc – report

    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025

    Low pay, poor working conditions, air pollution and insecure housing all harm people’s mental health, a report has suggested, whereas...

    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health
    • Musculoskeletal disorders

    Investing in health key to kickstarting growth, argues think-tank

    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Feb 2025

    Investing in people’s health, both physical and mental, is a key way the government will be able to stimulate sustained...

    • Financial wellbeing
    • Mental health
    • Reproductive health

    Frontline staff should be trained to discuss health issues

    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025

    People working in public-facing roles should be trained to have conversations about physical and mental health with customers.

    • Stress
    • Age
    • NHS

    Early careers NHS staff increasingly unhappy at work

    by Rob Moss 20 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 20 Feb 2025

    NHS clinical staff in their early careers have become more stressed and unhappy over the past decade, according to analysyis of staff surveys.

    • Anxiety
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Half of UK employees suffer anxiety at work

    by Zoe Wickens 11 Feb 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 11 Feb 2025

    Half of employees admit they regularly experience anxiety at work due to workloads, time pressures, and balancing professional and personal lives.

    • Stress
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Liz Kendall: some on benefits are ‘taking the mickey‘

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Feb 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Feb 2025

    Liz Kendall: ‘Despite all the myths, a lot of people who are currently on sickness or disability benefits want to work’

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Childhood mental ill health costs employers £24bn and workers £1tn

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    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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