healthcare

Public Health England (PHE) has set out its seven priorities for the next five years to improve public health - including greater collaboration with employers.

Hospital patients would be willing to travel up to 100 miles to ensure they could attend a hospital with a better infection record.

The NHS is to put the health of its 1.3 million employees at the heart of its development by offering staff incentives to stay healthy and serve as health ambassadors in local communities.

Smoking intervention is the least popular of all health intervention programmes provided by UK companies, research reveals.

Dame Carol Black is hoping smaller employers will use the government's £500 tax relief for return to work interventions after lobbying on their behalf.

The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is calling for everyone in paid employment and training to be paid the living wage to enable a good quality of life, health and wellbeing.

Yorkshire Water is already seeing the impact of the removal of the default retirement age on its older workers.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced that private health hospitals will be awarded ratings from April 2015.

Patients undergoing operations in private hospitals may be put at risk from inadequate equipment, lack of intensive care beds, unsafe staffing arrangements, and poor medical record-keeping according to a new report.

Just 5% of UK workers aged 65 and over are employed in small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) despite the abolition of the default retirement age in 2011, CIPD research reveals.