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The Government’s Health and Work Service (HWS) will provide a specific, targeted assessment*and return-to-work service rather than occupational health when it*launches at the end of this year, the company tasked [...]

Awareness of the forthcoming Health and Work Service is very limited, even among health professionals never mind the general public. Nic Paton summarises concerns about a lack of understanding and [...]

Occupational psychologist Susannah Robertson-Hart looks at the best way to support an employee returning to work following a period of mental ill health.There is compelling evidence that work is good [...]

Few occupational health services in the UK regularly engage with General Practitioners (GPs), if anecdotal evidence can be relied on. Several have been discouraged by an apparent lack of interest [...]

Occupational health should be free to all at the point of delivery through the NHS and occupational health physicians should take clinical leadership on how it is developed, according to [...]

In the wake of the Black Report, qualifications for "wellness champions" at work are beginning to emerge. Sally O'Reilly reports. One of the main thrusts of Dame Carol Black's review [...]

Judging process a[macron]The judges can award up to a maximum of 100 points for each entrant, including up to 25 points for the entry statement, and 15 points against each [...]

EXCLUSIVE by Nic Paton NHS Plus occupational health departments are going to have to take a long, hard look over the next 18 months at their primary purpose, their role [...]

by Nic Paton NHS occupational health services are perceived as being paternalistic, complacent, self-serving, narrow minded, lacking in innovation, commercially naive, bureaucratic and slow. This catalogue of perceived failings was [...]

Leading physician recommends local occupational health centres n The government should consider establishing a network of regional occupational health centres, into which workers could be directly referred by doctors, nurses [...]

Does introducing a healthy lifestyle programme into the workplace really have any effect? A Dublin-based OH service put a pilot programme to the test to evaluate its effectiveness. Mary Devaney [...]