Return to work and rehabilitation

An NHS England consultation on how to spend extra funding announced by the government last summer has cast a spotlight...

Occupational health can bring significant expertise to bear on a wide range of workplace health and wellbeing challenges. But, like...

Noise-induced occupational hearing loss is normally entirely preventable. But lack of awareness, especially among younger workers, poor training methods and...

As our workforce ages and becomes more sedentary, type 2 diabetes is increasingly prevalent. As Soroyo Barnes and Anne Harriss...

Occupational health provision needs to be made more accessible to smaller organisations to help increase the employment rate among those...

More than a third of people with arthritis or related conditions are out of work, with a fifth being forced...

Brett Hill explains why he believes occupational health managers have a pivotal role to play in improving mental health, and...

As our workforce ages, and employers become more reliant on older workers, age-related hearing loss will become an increasingly important...

It is estimated the incurable, inflammatory bowel condition Crohn’s disease affects at least 115,000 people in the UK. Managing it...

Even the best-intentioned employers and managers can struggle to support an employee with a cancer diagnosis. Cheryl Brennan outlines some...

Four million UK workers aged over 50 expect poor health and health problems to be the main reasons they stop...

Amputation and return to work
The extent to which amputees integrate into normal living after losing a limb affects their...

Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest organisation to sign a charter that encourages employers to commit to supporting staff...

A final question – more statement really – to minister Sarah Newton at June’s Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine...

People with learning disabilities often struggle to first secure and then maintain paid employment. That puts occupational health in a...