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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
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    Doctors stressed and anxious about Covid second wave

    by Nic Paton 6 Nov 2020
    by Nic Paton 6 Nov 2020

    Doctors in England have little or no confidence in the NHS being able to cope this winter, according to a...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Occupational Health

    Covid-19 fuelling surge in work-related stress across UK and Europe

    by Nic Paton 6 Nov 2020
    by Nic Paton 6 Nov 2020

    The coronavirus pandemic is increasing work-related stress across both the UK and Europe, a survey has concluded.
    Nearly two-thirds (64%)...

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Coronavirus

    Hope you’re keeping well – how technology can enable a culture of preventative mental healthcare

    by Personnel Today 6 Nov 2020
    by Personnel Today 6 Nov 2020

    We know mental ill health affects most people at some point in their lives. But Dr Nick Taylor argues employers...

    • Coronavirus
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health

    Staff wellbeing at risk from ‘presenteeism’ pressure

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Nov 2020

    More than half of workers felt pressured to go into the workplace even when government advised against it, which could...

    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Clinically vulnerable told to avoid workplace

    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Nov 2020

    ‘Clinically extremely vulnerable’ workers in England are being strongly advised by the government to avoid work outside their homes from...

    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Firms must encourage physical and emotional resilience during lockdown

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Nov 2020

    Employers must communicate with staff about the importance of building physical and emotional resilience into their daily lives as England...

    • Anxiety
    • NHS
    • Coronavirus

    OH urged to work with NHS Practitioner Health to support ‘exhausted’ clinicians

    by Nic Paton 3 Nov 2020
    by Nic Paton 3 Nov 2020

    As England heads towards a second national lockdown this week, and amid fears exhausted healthcare staff have still not recovered...

    • Stress
    • Mental health
    • Wellbeing

    ‘Mentally healthy’ business group launches global wellbeing framework

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Nov 2020

    A community of ‘mentally healthy’ businesses, including Deloitte, HSBC and Linklaters, has launched a set of standards designed to foster...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health

    Why the pandemic is not all bad news for mental health

    by Adam McCulloch 2 Nov 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 2 Nov 2020

    The pandemic and lockdown has actually improved the mental health of about a third of the UK's workers, new research has claimed.

    • USA
    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health

    Supermarket workers at heightened risk of Covid-19 infection

    by Rob Moss 30 Oct 2020
    by Rob Moss 30 Oct 2020

    Essential workers in supermarkets are at a much higher risk of coronavirus infection than the general population, with those in...

    • Stress
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health

    Staff burnout hits two-year high

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Oct 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Oct 2020

    Employee burnout reached a two-year high in August, as staff battled a cocktail of hardships including social isolation, enforced working...

    • Careers in HR
    • Change management
    • Coronavirus

    HR in universities: ‘One day is never the same as the next’

    by Jo Faragher 21 Oct 2020
    by Jo Faragher 21 Oct 2020

    Joanne Marshall has recently become the chair of Universities Human Resources, a body that supports people professionals across the higher...

    • Stress
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health

    Fewer staff taking time off for mental health, poll finds

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Oct 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Oct 2020

    The propotion of workers taking time off because of poor mental health has fallen to 28% from 36% last year,...

    • Stress
    • Research
    • Occupational Health

    CPD: Guidance on providing support following a suicide in primary care

    by Nic Paton 9 Oct 2020
    by Nic Paton 9 Oct 2020

    SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, has collaborated with the Louise Tebboth Foundation to launch a report on providing care...

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Warning that a fifth of adults might need mental health support post pandemic

    by Nic Paton 8 Oct 2020
    by Nic Paton 8 Oct 2020

    The government and the NHS must ‘prepare now’ to meet increased need for mental health support – for as many...

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