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.
Mental health training for line managers is strongly linked to better business performance, and could save companies millions of pounds...
More than one million fit notes for mental and behavioural disorders were issued by the NHS last year, according to...
Next UK government should look at what is really driving long-term absence – the shortcomings in workplace health support and the broken sick pay system.
Ethnic minority patients with heart failure are at much higher risk of death than White patients, research has concluded.
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Initial Labour Party proposals around health and work have been given a cautious thumbs-up by health professionals, even if the...
Cancer rates in people aged 25 to 49 increased by nearly a quarter (24%) from 1995 to 2019, according to...
More than a third of workers (37%) say they are working through pain as they cannot afford to take sick...
There has been a 40% rise in diagnoses of type 2 diabetes among younger people since 2016-17, a charity has...
Hybrid workers who split their time between the home and office tend to experience fewer work days lost to sickness,...
The Society of Occupational Medicine is urging major political parties to commit to introducing universal access to occupational health.
NHS heart and cardiac care waits in England have hit another grim record high, according to the charity the British...
Alcohol harm costs England £27.4bn a year, and this cost has risen 40% since 2003.
More than half a million more women have fallen out of the workplace because of sickness and ill health over...
The number of new strokes will increase by 51% from 100,000 to 151,000 by 2035, a charity has warned, costing...
Fit notes need to become more ‘dynamic’ to allow people off work because of ill health to be referred to...
