There is very little scientific proof that being prescribed antidepressants will help people with long-term chronic pain, a study has suggested.
Disability
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A combination of the pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and poor retirement saving is forcing more and more people to work...
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Occupational health practitioners could play an important role in the government’s WorkWell pilots.
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With the dust now settling on this week’s health and disability white paper, what is it actually proposing for occupational health? Nic Paton reports.
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Occupational health practitioners and providers have applauded the government’s ‘unprecedented’ focus on expanding access to OH in this week’s Budget...
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A call has been made for more to be done to help people with disabilities work safely and healthily from home.
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The extreme fatigue and 'brain fog' that people with long Covid can experience may be down to the virus causing changes in the brain structure.
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What is functional neurological disorder and how might it affect employees? Everything occupational health teams need to know.
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More than half of people out of work since the pandemic because of long-term sickness are aged over 50, according...
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There needs to be a shift from treating people when they become too ill to work, to preventing them from getting ill in the first place, a group of MPs have been told
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People who experience long Covid following only a mild bout of Covid-19 are likely to see their symptoms resolve within a year.
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Millions of often working-age people across the UK are still experiencing long-term, potentially debilitating, health symptoms following a Covid-19 infection...
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A stone mason who contracted silicosis after allegedly being exposed to dust while working on Elgin Cathedral in Scotland has accepted a £3.5m compensation settlement.
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Nearly one in four people with the lung condition Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is waiting a staggering five years...