HR Excellence Awards 2012 – Health and Wellbeing Award: American Express

American Express has a vision to help employees shift their view of health benefits, engage in preventative care and above all be inspired to adopt healthier behaviours that will benefit them, their...

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SME bosses put chatting about weather before addressing staff mental health, Bupa report shows

More than a quarter of small business owners in the UK do not feel confident they would be able to recognise and address ill health, stress or depression among their staff, according to Bupa research....

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Replace NHS with pay as you go, urges IEA head

The NHS needs a “radical” reform, where employees have personal pots into which savings can be made for healthcare and transferred into pensions funding upon retirement, according to Mark Littlewood...

Employers must combat the stigma around chronic disease, urges Dame Carol Black

Dame Carol Black (pictured), author of Health at Work and expert advisor to the Department of Health and Lord Freud, parliamentary undersecretary of state for the Department for Work and Pensions have...

'Training gap' in healthcare sector puts patients at risk, finds survey of managers

More than over three quarters (78%) of managers surveyed in the healthcare sector believe patient care is at risk due to a lack of proper staff training and development, according to the latest...

Time for employers to get proactive on workplace wellbeing

Employee wellbeing might be firmly on the agenda for some organisations but are employers any nearer to really reaping all of the benefits associated with it?

NHS Leadership Academy will shape NHS, post-Health Bill, says NHS Employers

The NHS has put people at the heart of its agenda, as “the architecture of the organisation looks set to change following the Health Bill,” the director of NHS Employers, Dean Royles, told HR.

Workplace deaths underestimated by 800%, claims Unite

Trade union Unite has accused the Government of “hiding behind statistics”, as workplace deaths are underestimated by more than 800%.

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Food and Drink Federation: why it's up to employers to make a commitment to staff health

Health and wellbeing in the workplace has moved up the boardroom agenda quite notably in the past few years.

Acas tackles the taboo of mental health at work

Acas has launched its first guide to tackle the last taboo in business - mental illness at work.

HR health and wellbeing special 6/6: better physical and mental health delivers benefits for both the employee and employer

Workplace health and wellbeing do not remain constant. The focus of attention for organisations shifts and changes as technology, working practices and societal expectations and norms develop.

As workplace stress increases more than a fifth of employees are chained to desks without lunch, finds Ambius

Almost a third of office workers are feeling more stress than they were a year ago, according to a survey of over 1200 by workplace environment consultancy Ambius.