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 two in five employees in the rail sector meet the clinical criteria for a mental health condition, according...
There’s a whole new category of presenteeism that needs to be considered. This is the idea that individuals feel they are unable to bring their true selves to the workplace.
A think-tank has urged the government to make investment in mental health a priority in the comprehensive spending review.
Employers are still feeling their way in terms of how best to support and manage workers with long Covid. But...
While not formally recognised as a disability, the effect long Covid may have on a person's ability to work may mean it should be considered as such.
The complexities, challenges and uncertainties surrounding long Covid means it is time for a wholesale rethink around rehabilitation, return to...
Six in 10 Generation X workers are concerned that poor physical health could prevent them from working in later life....
Poor lifestyle choices made during the past 18 months mean employers now need to take action to reduce the risk of preventable diseases, such as diabetes.
The number of requests for sick notes leapt in May, according to an on-demand GP service.
The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic was a steep learning curve for all employers, but in particular bus and...
People with long Covid should be able to access occupational health to aid the return to work, the Society of Occupational Medicine has said.
Many people suffering with ‘long Covid’ are still unable to fully work six months after their initial coronavirus infection, according...
Health and wellbeing provider BHSF has conducted 3,500 ‘contact free’ return-to-work medical assessments in the past six months.
Its occupational...
Mental ill health accounted for four in 10 fit notes issued by GPs during the first lockdown in the spring,...
The UK should put in place ‘Sustainable Workplace Health Strategies’ for each of its nations, the British Occupational Hygiene Society...
