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Fit for Work

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.


    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    OH overlooked in call for better support for black people with mental illness

    by Nic Paton 28 Nov 2022
    by Nic Paton 28 Nov 2022

    More innovative approaches need to be used to communicate the benefits of regular physical health checks for people with severe mental illness from Black African and Caribbean communities, a report has suggested.

    • Health & Safety Executive
    • Fit for Work
    • Coronavirus

    Work-related Covid infections up a third, HSE analysis suggests

    by Nic Paton 25 Nov 2022
    by Nic Paton 25 Nov 2022

    More than 100,000 workers went down with Covid-19 in the past year which they believed they contracted in the workplace,...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Fit for Work
    • Employment law

    How an ‘Empowerment Passport’ can enable disability and neurodiversity adjustments

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Nov 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Nov 2022

    The creator of an 'Empowerment Passport' explains how her document can help employees and organisations with reasonable adjustments.

    • Long Covid
    • Fit for Work
    • Coronavirus

    TUC joins call for long Covid to be recognised as a disability

    by Nic Paton 21 Nov 2022
    by Nic Paton 21 Nov 2022

    The TUC has joined the organisations calling for long Covid to be recognised as a disability under the Equality Act...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Call to improve support for rare autoimmune and rheumatic diseases

    by Nic Paton 21 Nov 2022
    by Nic Paton 21 Nov 2022

    People living with rare autoimmune and rheumatic diseases are suffering from 'alarming' disparities in the quality of care and treatment they receive.

    • Long Covid
    • Fit for Work
    • Conditions

    New scanning technique honing in on long Covid ‘microclots’

    by Nic Paton 11 Nov 2022
    by Nic Paton 11 Nov 2022

    New X-ray technology can identify the damage that severe Covid-19 can inflict on the lungs, including the 'microclots' often associated with long Covid.

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Musculoskeletal disorders

    Chronic pain in forties can lead to joblessness a decade later

    by Nic Paton 4 Nov 2022
    by Nic Paton 4 Nov 2022

    More than two-fifths of Britons in their forties suffer from chronic pain, research has suggested.

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Value of occupational health highlighted in sight loss guidance

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Nov 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Nov 2022

    New employer sight loss guidance suggests how occupational health can support employees who are blind or partially sighted.

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Research

    Fatigue detection tool could reduce injury risks for shift workers

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Oct 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Oct 2022

    A startup is to develop and test a fatigue detection tool that could minimise health and safety incidents among shift workers.

    • Fit for Work
    • NHS
    • Occupational Health

    MPs slam ‘unacceptably poor’ access to primary care

    by Nic Paton 25 Oct 2022
    by Nic Paton 25 Oct 2022

    Trying to make an appointment to see your GP should not be like phoning a call centre or “booking an...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Lack of access to OH key factor in older-age worklessness

    by Nic Paton 21 Oct 2022
    by Nic Paton 21 Oct 2022

    The UK’s historically low access to occupational health expertise is one of the key reasons why so many workers with...

    • Fit for Work
    • Coronavirus
    • Research

    Covid-19 has caused ‘unprecedented’ drop in life expectancy

    by Nic Paton 17 Oct 2022
    by Nic Paton 17 Oct 2022

    The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a protracted shock to life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes “unprecedented” in the...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Occupational Health

    Workplace injury and disease settlements halve in a decade

    by Nic Paton 10 Oct 2022
    by Nic Paton 10 Oct 2022

    Settlements for workplace injury and disease have halved, despite a sharp increase in work-related ill health.

    • Long Covid
    • Fit for Work
    • Coronavirus

    Exodus of over-50s leaving work because of ill health

    by Nic Paton 30 Sep 2022
    by Nic Paton 30 Sep 2022

    New ONS figures in September 2022 show a significant proportion of over-50s are leaving work because of ill health.

    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety

    Drug and alcohol testing no big deal, even at home, say employees

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2022
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2022

    The vast majority of employees are relaxed about alcohol and drug testing and by their employer, a survey has suggested.

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