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.
More than four out of 10 adults in Europe (42%) are risk of structural heart disease by 2040 if detection...
Researchers have developed an app that, they argue, can help to reduce the impact of tinnitus, or ringing in the...
Just four out of 10 UK employees (43%) who have, or have had, cancer have been satisfied with the return-to-work...
People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could benefit from access to two NHS digital rehabilitation services.
The National Institute...
The government has said it intends to pilot a new rehabilitation service, including the use of occupational health professionals, to...
The government is being urged to oversee greater investment in occupational health to prevent long-term sickness.
Women who have suffered pelvic organ prolapse may be able to self-manage their condition effectively rather than having repeatedly to...
Thousands of lives could be saved from lung cancer if targeted screening programmes for the disease were introduced in Scotland,...
Male ‘Millennial’ or ‘Gen Z’ employees are reporting “alarming” levels of burnout, research has suggested.
The Cigna 2023 Vitality Study...
Obesity is now costing the UK economy nearly £100bn a year through earlier deaths and ill health, additional caring responsibilities,...
The NHS needs to invest in employee mental health services if it is serious about tackling the workforce crisis gripping...
As many as 3.7 million people are struggling with a ‘work-limiting’ health condition that restricts the type or amount of...
Health and safety professionals need to tackle “unacceptably high” numbers of work-related deaths, the new president of IOSH has said.
The NHS’s Diabetes Prevention Programme could act as a template for other countries in their attempts to tackle the disease,...
A record 4.4 million people are now covered by health insurance through their employer and one million claims have been...
