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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.


    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    Seasonal affective disorder: How to support staff through the winter

    by Simon Blake 20 Dec 2019
    by Simon Blake 20 Dec 2019

    Seasonal affective disorder can significantly affect employees' day-to-day activities. Simon Blake explains how OH can support staff.

    • Absence
    • Stress
    • Financial wellbeing

    Employees’ money worries ‘costing employers billions’

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Dec 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Dec 2019

    Financial worries are costing employers billions every year in absenteeism, lost productivity and turnover costs – but organisations are doing...

    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    OH needs to work more with other professions on wellbeing strategies, says SOM

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Dec 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Dec 2019

    Occupational health professionals should get more involved in the provision of wellbeing services and need to work more with other...

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    Terrorism witnesses need psychological help sooner, study finds

    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Dec 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Dec 2019

    People affected by terrorist attacks need to access to more immediate psychological help, research has recommended.
    A study into the...

    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    Few employees using mental health and wellbeing benefits

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Dec 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Dec 2019

    Almost half (49%) of employers agree that poor mental health is the biggest health and wellbeing challenge they are facing,...

    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    ‘Commit to mental health first aid in party manifestos’, politicians urged

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Nov 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Nov 2019

    Politicians have been urged to commit to putting mental and physical first aid on an equal footing if they win...

    • Brexit
    • Europe
    • NHS

    Labour would retain freedom of movement for NHS staff

    by Rob Moss 13 Nov 2019
    by Rob Moss 13 Nov 2019

    A Labour government, post-Brexit, would retain freedom of movement from the EU for NHS medical professionals, shadow health secretary Jonathan...

    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    One worker in three considers leaving their job because of stress

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Nov 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Nov 2019

    More than a third of employees (35%) have considered leaving their job because of work-related stress brought on by heavy...

    • Financial wellbeing
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    Two-thirds don’t want to talk about money issues at work

    by Jo Faragher 6 Nov 2019
    by Jo Faragher 6 Nov 2019

    Business for the Community research finds a fifth of staff are struggling to make ends meet.

    • Research
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    Mental health first aid benefits to be explored in academic study

    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Nov 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Nov 2019

    The impact that mental health first aid training has on employees and organisations is to be explored, as part of...

    • NHS
    • Mental health conditions
    • Latest News

    Survey digs deeper into why doctors are at risk of burnout

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Nov 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Nov 2019

    Psychological approach taken to gauge health professionals' feelings of disaffection.

    • Mental health conditions
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Thirty leading companies sign up to mental health commitment

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Oct 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Oct 2019

    Barclays, Royal Mail, and John Lewis pledge to promote staff wellbeing and good mental health.

    • Mental health conditions
    • Disability
    • Mental health

    Around 300,000 leave work because of mental health, minister claims

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Oct 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Oct 2019

    An estimated 300,000 people with mental health conditions fall out of work every year, the minister for disabled people has...

    • Stress
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    CIPD’s Peter Cheese: HR’s role in improving mental health

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Oct 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Oct 2019

    On World Mental Health Day, HR teams have been reminded of the scale of the mental ill health “epidemic” and...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Depression
    • Disability discrimination

    Jobseekers advised to avoid words such as ‘depression’

    by Jo Faragher 9 Oct 2019
    by Jo Faragher 9 Oct 2019

    Jobcentre Plus employees have been advised to tell people looking for work to hide mental health issues with terms such...

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