Fit for Work is a Government-funded service providing occupational health assessments on referral from the employee's GP or employer, where an employee is absent from work for at least four weeks. It also provides advice for employers, employees and GPs on matters relating to health and work.
While not formally recognised as a disability, the effect long Covid may have on a person's ability to work may mean it should be considered as such.
The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic was a steep learning curve for all employers, but in particular bus and...
Many people suffering with ‘long Covid’ are still unable to fully work six months after their initial coronavirus infection, according...
Health and wellbeing provider BHSF has conducted 3,500 ‘contact free’ return-to-work medical assessments in the past six months.
Its occupational...
Mental ill health accounted for four in 10 fit notes issued by GPs during the first lockdown in the spring,...
The UK should put in place ‘Sustainable Workplace Health Strategies’ for each of its nations, the British Occupational Hygiene Society...
Research from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has argued that people suffering from ‘long Covid’ – or often...
Governments across Europe are being urged to create a comprehensive strategy to tackle rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions, which currently affect...
Employers must put a greater emphasis on meeting individual needs when planning an employees’ return to work following mental illness....
A renal specialist has warned that ‘tens of thousands’ of people who have had Covid-19 may require kidney transplants or...
The estimated 35,000 people who survived a stroke during the pandemic are in need of more support, with many missing...
Thousands people in the UK could be suffering from ‘long Covid’, where debilitating symptoms from a Covid-19 infection, even a...
Fifth of doctors consume “potentially hazardous” levels of alcohol
Twenty per cent of doctors in a survey of 109 working...
Experts in occupational medicine have developed a risk assessment tool to evaluate an individual’s vulnerability to Covid-19, based on their...
The number of NHS patients admitted for routine operations dropped by 82% in May, prompting doctors to warn of a...
