Wellbeing and health promotion

With this year’s World Mental Health Day focusing on improving mental health within the workplace, Lou Campbell outlines eight changes...

A UK-wide occupational health mental health ‘hub’ should be created to help tackle the “unprecedented” levels of mental ill health...

Nearly a third (32%) of black men have not had a prostate cancer test because their GP either refused to...

Dame Carol Black, chair of the new government occupational health taskforce, is set to be at the heart of high-level...

Recovering addict turned therapist Fiona Peacock explains the dangers of alcohol ‘sensitisation’ in the workplace.
As an addiction therapist as...

Four out of five tradespeople (82%) say they have experienced stress, anxiety and mental ill health because of their work,...

Nearly two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds (65%) know less about their dental health than they do about their mental health, illustrating the...

Careful consideration must be given to how NHS health checks are implemented and communicated and how confidentiality is maintained.

Pain tends to be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported by individuals with long Covid, according to a study.

Next week will see a series of events and activities being run by SOM, the Society of Occupational Medicine, as...

All employers have a responsibility to educate their employees about suicide prevention, including how the language around it has changed,...

As many as 4.3 million people could be languishing out of work because of sickness and ill health by the...

There will be more than 900,000 cancer deaths in the UK by the end of the new government’s first parliamentary...

The government has set up a ‘Labour Market Advisory Board’ to tackle rising levels of worklessness, including because of ill...

Occupational health can be a pivotal resource employers look to for help and guidance when responding to the death of...