healthcare

The Health and Work Service has been formally unveiled alongside official figures that show almost one million long-term absences occur each year. Owain Thomas examines the statistics and the reactions.

Hospital group HCA has promised a "vigorous" legal challenge to the ruling of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it must sell some of it's central London hospitals.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reducing some of its demands on private healthcare providers and practitioners to address lack of competition and consumer detriment issues in the market.

Private medical insurers (PMIs) are promising to pass on any savings made from the Competition and Market Authority's (CMA) final remedies for the private healthcare market to customers.

Recommendations to increase transparency and market plurality could have a significant effect on employers providing healthcare benefits to their staff. Owain Thomas assesses what the likely impacts are

Leaders of UK businesses including BT, RBS and Mars are collaborating to launch a new campaign that aims to end the "stifling" culture of silence on mental health in the workplace.

Half of UK adults are classified as either overweight (31%) or obese (19%) yet a significant proportion believe they are in very good or excellent health, research finds.

A new occupational healthcare company, Work Doctors, aims to make it easier to access occupational healthcare and traditional family medicine for major UK businesses.

Nick Martindale examines how organisations are creating a health and wellness culture where people want to come in to work and are less likely to get ill.

Recommendations by the Competition Commission to tackle issues within the private healthcare market could have a significant effect on employers. Owain Thomas assesses the likely impacts.