healthcare

Double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell is set to lead a new project on the long-term impacts of obesity and inactivity for the think tank Policy Exchange.

The CBI has recognised the business case for investing in staff health and wellbeing in a recent report. Hannah Uttley looks at why looking after the health of employees is now "too significant to be ignored".

Professor Dame Carol Black has been at the forefront of healthy workplace policy for almost a decade. Owain Thomas spoke to the government's expert adviser on health and work after her keynote speech at PBUK.

Reducing the working week to four days would help to combat work-related stress and the mental ill-health associated with overwork or lack of work, one of Britain's leading doctors says.

Skeptical finance teams will be looking for double counting of cost savings when scrutinizing scheme business cases, benefits professionals are being warned.

Over a quarter of employees say their working environment promotes stress, according to Canada Life research, which reveals the extent to which workplaces can adversely impact health and wellbeing.

The Competition and Markets Authority's first act was to soften the remedies to tackle the £170m detriment suffered by consumers each year in the private healthcare market. Owain Thomas examines the review.

Over half (57%) of employees have admitted to turning up to work feeling tired on at least one occasion in the past three months, which often has an adverse impact on productivity, a report reveals.

Over two-thirds (69%) of employees who've experienced a mental health condition worry they'll be judged at work because of that condition, research has found.

Effective intervention to keep employees at work and reduce sickness absence is the "holy grail" of workplace health, according to Professor Dame Carol Black.