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.
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...
On National Grief Awareness Day (December 3), Rebecca Mian shares some advice on how employers can support employees going through...
As the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine receives approval from the UK medicines regulator, to what degree can employers insist that staff...
The Co-op has launched a nightshift workers’ health and wellbeing ‘manifesto’ in Parliament, which has called for employers to be...
Long Covid can affect many areas of an employee’s life – and the health and wellbeing benefits and interventions offered...
Employees have been encouraged to adopt a ‘fake commute’ while working from home, with research finding almost three in five...
Only 3% of people aged 55 and over would see their GP if they experienced memory loss, forgetfulness or a...
Worries about Covid-19 are affecting wellbeing as employees work from home, but loneliness and having to juggle domestic responsibilities with...
