Guest blog by Gail Henderson, HR Consultant Occupational Health (OH) and Human Resource (HR) practitioners share a common goal of creating an open, honest and high performing workplace, where employee’s health and wellbeing are valued, not just in terms of productivity and return on investment, but…
Guest blog by Kathryn Hinchliff, Senior Practice Advisor at SafeLives For the last two months the message has been clear: Stay At Home. But home is not a safe place for everyone, and that is particularly the case for families experiencing domestic abuse. Some of these families will be your clients…
Guest blog by Dr. Finola Ryan and Dr. Lucia Batty Workers with health conditions considered to make them extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 were advised by the government to observe ‘shielding’ for 12 weeks. Pre-habilitation, or ‘prehab’, is the optimisation of an individual's functional capacity to…
Guest blog by Dr Clare Fernandes During lockdown, in general physical health comprises of exercise, diet and lifestyle, sleep and managing health conditions. Exercise is of particular importance as I think this has been impacted upon the most during the lockdown. There are two main benefits: (i)…
Guest blog by Professor Kim Burton OBE, Lorraine Anderson-Cole and Jennifer Remnant Supporting people back to work is not just about the economy - there are substantial personal and social benefits. These benefits though come from good jobs, jobs that are safe and supportive. COVID-19 is going to…
Guest blog by Dr Noreen Tehrani, Occupational Health Psychologist Organisations face increasing uncertainty and challenges created by the devastating impact of the COVID-19 virus. Attention is now moving to the relaxation of lockdown restrictions, considering what this might look like and what they…
Guest blog by Professor Richard Preece It was good to read James’ blog on preparing OH support to NHS Nightingale North West Hospital (NNH). I would like to express my sincere thanks to James, Tok and all the HealthWork team, and offer a few thoughts from the other side of the partnership. In the…
Guest blog by Dr James Quigley, Medical Director, Healthwork Dr James Quigley shares his experiences of supporting the executive leadership team at NHS Nightingale North West (NHSN NW) to set up a pop-up OH service for the field hospital in Manchester. We were first contacted on 31st March and…
By Dr Yvette Martyn On 28th April 2020 it is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The International Labour Organization (ILO) started the World Day initiative in 2003 in order to stress the prevention of accidents and diseases at work. 28th April is also International Workers' Memorial Day…
Guest blog by Lt General Louis Lillywhite, Chatham House and Occupational Medicine Consultant The COVID -19 outbreak has already disrupted the global economy, and the demand for hospital care is exceeding the capacity of many nations’ health systems. The pace of transmission of the virus and the…
Guest blog by Prof Alison Leary, Professor of Healthcare and Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University The recent COVID-19 situation has exacerbated a workforce crisis in healthcare. A global workforce shortage of occupations such as nursing 1 mean that facing any kind of surge in demand…
Guest blog by Phil Waterworth, Clinical Operations Director at Team Prevent As the COVID-19 crisis escalated, it became clear very quickly that managers in the NHS required help in supporting staff with underlying health conditions to remain in work and with redeployment. We developed a ‘Managers…