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.
With up to 80% of menopausal women still of working age, the health risks and sometimes debilitating symptoms that can...
Domestic abuse is nothing to do with employers or the workplace, right? Wrong. Some three-quarters of people who endure domestic...
Raising the state pension age to 75 will improve the health and wellbeing of older people, a think tank has controversially proposed.
Workers could be “sleepwalking into an epidemic of cardiovascular disease” if they do not improve their knowledge of heart disease...
Homeworking is often thought as an easy solution to workplace stress, long hours and exhausting commutes. In fact, apart from...
One in three people living with cancer are of working age, yet managers and employers often feel ill-equipped when it...
If an employee has an eating disorder it can have a severe effect on their physical and psychological health as...
Occupational health practitioners and providers have been urged to educate their HR colleagues and employers about their role and the...
More than half of people with a heart and circulatory condition have felt depressed or anxious as treatment-related worries, perceived...
With the government considering extending fit note certification to other healthcare professionals, Dr Adrian Massey looks back at how we...
Statutory Sick Pay will be reformed under new measures to better support people with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
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More than half (54%) of workers are living in a state of “illness denial”, a health insurer has said, because...
Increasing paperwork, time pressures and a focus on meeting targets could mean that GPs are missing potentially life-threatening conditions, a...
Whatever the final outcome, the legal case between the Royal Opera House and musicians around hearing loss is likely to...
A functional assessment is a key part of any occupational health consultation, yet effective history-taking is something many coming into...
