Disability pay gap: new TUC research
The TUC has released new research; this found that the current disability pay gap for all employees stands at 15.5%. This pay gap means that disabled people effectively work for...
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Consultation Events: Health is everyone’s business – More Dates Added!
The Government recently published Health is everyone’s business, a public consultation seeking views on different ways in which government and employers can take action to reduce ill health-related job loss. ...
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Stress related absence increases
Nearly two-fifths of UK businesses (37%) have seen an increase in stress-related absence over the last year, with heavy workloads and poor management style to blame, according to a recent...
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Reflections of rehabilitation professional: difficult times
Spring is a time of looking forward – associated by me with seeing the crocus and then daffodils as they burst through the winter soil. Hopefully one considers all the...
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Menopause has a negative impact on women at work
59% of working women between the ages of 45 and 55 who are experiencing menopause symptoms say it has a negative impact on them at work according to new research....
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Reflections of rehabilitation professional: heart lessons
In keeping with the cardiac theme of this month's newsletter, I was reminded of a fascinating episode in my early career. In 1970 I was appointed to a Residency Training...
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Social Prescribing
Advisers will be recruited to help patients live fitter, healthier lives and combat anxiety, loneliness and depression under plans to ramp up social prescribing set to be launched by NHS...
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Introducing the Challenge Fund #WHChallengeFund
The Government’s Work and Health Unit, a joint unit funded by the Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care, launched the Challenge Fund, a new...
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Reflections of rehabilitation professional: learning about management and getting things done
I trained to be a consultant physician between 1977-1980. During that period, I was advised to go on a ‘management course’. It is a sad reflection on the way the...
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More reflections of rehabilitation professional: learning more about post-traumatic psychological distress (PTPD)
My last reflections touched on post-traumatic psychological distress (PTPD). This is a subject about which I have never embarked on any audit or research, but I learned about it in...
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