Coronavirus

The chief executive of King’s College Hospital fears he will lose staff over the upcoming requirement for frontline health workers to be vaccinated.

Occupational health provision and support for exhausted healthcare workers needs to be at the heart of any NHS post-Covid recovery plan.

HR must consider the risk that some staff might call in sick to take time off where annual leave may not have been granted by an employer.

Occupational health practitioners should avoid getting involved in employment or disciplinary matters if employees covered by mandatory vaccination rules refuse...

MPs want the NHS to come up with a plan to tackle the huge elective care backlog that has built up during the pandemic.

Around a fifth of working adults worked exclusively from home between mid-December and 3 January, according to the Office for National Statistics.

A leaked memo warns that the low paid could be disadvantaged by new regime, as they still need to get a PCR test to claim financial support.

There has been a rapid increase in the number of people reporting long term health complications after coronavirus.

Hospital worker whose absence was treated as unauthorised while he awaited his wife's test result has suceeded in part of his tribunal claim.

Workers in key industries will be offered daily lateral flow tests as infections grow.

More than 90 care home operators have declared a staffing emergency, as thousands of care workers are forced to self-isolate...

An employee who had her wages withheld after she refused to go to work because she feared catching Covid-19 has...

With many of us kicking off the new year by making resolutions to get fitter and healthier, the government has...

Public services including healthcare, transport and education are coming under strain amid crippling Covid-19 absence rates.
Health leaders have indicated...

Questions on employees’ Covid vaccination status, self-isolation and testing continued to be popular during December.
Employers were also asking various...