Sickness absence management

Offering flu jabs through the workplace could save employers as much as £87 a year per employee, research has suggested.

Next UK government should look at what is really driving long-term absence – the shortcomings in workplace health support and the broken sick pay system.

The majority of health and safety professionals want the next government to prioritise improving occupational health services to cut the...

Around one in six people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but this is fewer than had previously been...

Employers are more likely than employees to agree that sickness absence is more acceptable now than it was five years ago.

Ethnic minority patients with heart failure are at much higher risk of death than White patients, research has concluded.
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Initial Labour Party proposals around health and work have been given a cautious thumbs-up by health professionals, even if the...

Cancer rates in people aged 25 to 49 increased by nearly a quarter (24%) from 1995 to 2019, according to...

More than a third of workers (37%) say they are working through pain as they cannot afford to take sick...

There has been a 40% rise in diagnoses of type 2 diabetes among younger people since 2016-17, a charity has...

Hybrid workers who split their time between the home and office tend to experience fewer work days lost to sickness,...

Cases of skin cancer in the UK are projected to reach a record high this year of 20,800, a charity...

NHS heart and cardiac care waits in England have hit another grim record high, according to the charity the British...

The weight loss drug semaglutide also delivers heart health and cardiovascular benefits, irrespective of a patient’s starting weight or the...

One in four employees with cancer will keep the diagnosis to themselves because they feel unable to talk about their...