Return to work and rehabilitation

Researchers have developed a tool to help doctors better identify patients at high risk of serious falls.
While most likely...

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

The government has launched a return-to-work tool designed to help employers support disabled people and those with health conditions.

SOM has published a toolkit for universities and further education institutions to help young people dealing with musculoskeletal disorders into work.

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

Nearly a quarter wait more than 12 weeks to start treatment because of a lack of consultant psychiatrists, according to research.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for countries to take a more “sustained” approach to tackling long Covid.

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

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

The government has outlined a ‘plan for patients’ to help tackle NHS backlogs, but there is no mention of the role occupational health could play.

What is art psychotherapy and how might it benefit employee health and wellbeing?

The number of working-age people with young-onset dementia is significantly higher than previously thought, new figures have suggested.

The number of people in England waiting for hospital treatment hit a new record high of 6.8 million at the...

More than half of people with asthma (56%) worry the pandemic has made managing their condition more challenging.

New prime minister Liz Truss has been urged to prioritise tackling the ‘profound’ public health challenges facing the country.
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