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.
Rishi Sunak is set to announce plans to move responsibility for issuing fite notesfrom GPs to “specialist work and health professionals” in England.
Nearly a quarter of working-age adults will have been diagnosed with a major illness by 2040, a health think-tank has...
Current sickness absence and return-to-work policies are unfit for purpose for those living with long Covid, research has suggested.
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Waiting times for processing benefits and government compensation claims for mesothelioma patients have doubled within a year.
People with long Covid have tell-tale, distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood, which could potentially be targeted with...
Thousands of people worried about the risk of early or young-onset dementia are to be offered pioneering new blood tests.
This case study explores the response to a workplace accident in the construction sector, including actions to improve safety procedures.
There are millions of ‘silent spreaders’ of tuberculosis across the world – and researchers have taken a step closer to identifying them.
More than two-thirds (69%) of Universal Credit claimants have mental or behavioural health disorders, and nearly half (48%) have musculoskeletal...
Being vaccinated against Covid-19 can substantially reduce the risk of heart failure and blood clots associated with the virus, according...
Three-quarters of women (74%) experience health problems at work yet their line managers too often are not trained properly to...
More than four in 10 people (43%) no longer feel the NHS is able to meet the nation’s health needs.
The NHS should trial Singapore-style ‘polyclinics’ to ease pressure on GP practices and even allow Singaporean doctors to prescribe medicines...
More than one billion people in the world are now living with obesity, research has found, with obesity among adults...
It could take as long as 50 years for the gap in healthy life expectancy between the north and south...
