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 burnout, stress and anxiety surging in many workplaces, Mike Hay outlines five practical ways that employers can help.
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A total of 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness in the past year (2023-24), figures from the Health...
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that analyses ECG readings during routine heart scans could identify people at risk of type...
More than a third of chartered accountants (36%) say they have suffered from insomnia or disrupted sleep over the past...
More than half of businesses are concerned by long NHS waiting lists and the impact these are having on their...
More than two-thirds (68%) of UK workers do not know if their employer offers acccess to an employee assistance programme...
The number of people in their fifties being admitted to hospital following a stroke has risen by more than half...
Nearly three-quarters of Scots (72%) feel there is a problem with stigmatisation of severe mental illness in the country, research...
Accidental deaths in the UK have reached an all-time high and are now the second biggest killer of people aged...
The government’s spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) has called for a review of NHS Health Checks, as the...
These CPD activities, developed by Professor Anne Harriss, accompany Elaine Kerr’s article ‘Invest to save – making the business case...
More than 5,000 people in England have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier thanks to the NHS’s targeted Lung Health...
Years of lung health neglect is suffocating the NHS, with a ‘staggering’ 1.7 million admissions to hospitals in England last...
The government has emphasised the links between ‘good’ work and good health as it prepares to publish a white paper...
A trial will test the efficacy of a therapy designed to mitigate the effects of a disabling post-stroke condition that...
