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.
Many organisations had extensive wellbeing programmes in place long before the pandemic hit this year. But with a largely remote...
New data suggests women in the UK are disproportionately more stressed by their work situation than men.
Data shows that men are less likely to access support for mental health issues, yet they are statistically more likely...
Urgent action is needed to improve the training about smoking cessation that mental health nurses and psychiatrists receive, a report...
Health and wellbeing provider BHSF has conducted 3,500 ‘contact free’ return-to-work medical assessments in the past six months.
Its occupational...
Two in five (38%) business leaders in the UK have turned to alcohol or drugs to cope with mental ill...
Mental ill health accounted for four in 10 fit notes issued by GPs during the first lockdown in the spring,...
Three in 10 (29%) people with a known medical condition have avoided seeing their GP or attending a hospital appointment...
Lockdown measures have had a significant impact on women experiencing the menopause, but very few have spoken to their employer...
At the height of the Covid-19 crisis, staff working in hospitals and residential homes went above and beyond in often...
During lockdown Bupa saw a 40% increase in enquiries to its EAPs from companies seeking advice on how to support...
In the final article of her three-part series, Catherine D’Arcy-Jones examines some tools and resources OH practitioners can use to...
On National Grief Awareness Day (December 3), Rebecca Mian shares some advice on how employers can support employees going through...
The mental health charity Mind has warned of a “second pandemic” of mental ill health, as calls to its helpline...
