Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the...
Return to work and rehabilitation
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The number of working days lost to asthma and respiratory illnesses has soared since the pandemic, with a 153% increase...
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Four research projects aiming to reduce health-related economic inactivity and ill-health worklessness are to get a £7m cash injection between...
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The economy could be boosted by more than 65 million working hours each year if employee assistance programmes (EAPs) were...
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If the government is serious about stemming the flow of those suffering with ill health from leaving the labour market,...
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The Mayfield review is urging employers and workplace health professionals to engage with it about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to healthcare interventions.
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Some 37,000 people off work because of long-term sickness have successfully been removed from NHS waiting lists and helped back...
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‘Significant’ gap between what employers and employees expect from health benefits
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonThere is a “significant” gap in perceptions and expectations around health and wellbeing benefits between employers and employees, a survey...
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A more proactive approach to employee health could prevent 100,000 people from falling out of work over the next five...
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The government is to roll out work coaches to enable more people out of work because of sickness or disability to regain access to employment.
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Fostering a culture of openness and awareness, promoting healthy lifestyle choices and, crucially, ensuring managers are well-educated and well-trained can...
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Health professionals are being urged to adopt five key principles designed to embed, and promote, the idea that access to...
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Ahead of World Cancer Day, more than seven out of 10 employees (71%) living with cancer say they don’t get...
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Intense pressure on paediatric physiotherapy, with children often waiting far longer for treatment than they should, risks causing lifelong health...
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Better access to OH could be key to reducing UK’s ill health worklessness – report
by Nic Patonby Nic PatonEnabling much more “comprehensive” access to occupational health expertise could be one of the keys to reducing ill health-related worklessness...