Growing financial pressures are leaving employers increasingly concerned about the cost of the present national pay and conditions, according to NHS Employers.

Employees have "optimistic illusions" about their health, a workplace survey of 1,000 staff reveals.

Brutal NHS cuts will hit hard in the coming years - and UK plc and HR professionals will feel the aftershocks.

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is urging employers to realise the cost benefits of keeping staff healthy and happy, after Leeds Metropolitan University saved £75,000 a year...

UK workers’ eating habits are suffering due to stress, according to research from the forthcoming Aviva Health of the Workplace report.

A recent report suggests that the financial crisis has almost certainly led to an increase in suicides across Europe, says Richard Chandler.

Policies to limit demand, increase productivity or up the use of private money in healthcare should be seriously considered while there is still time, according to a new report by the Institute of...

There have been numerous high-level reports on work and wellbeing, and in all of them the issue of the line manager comes up as a key aspect to employee health and wellbeing, says the Health and...

More than a fifth of employers did not have a system in place for recording sickness absence, according to findings from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

Healthcare provider Simplyhealth has reached agreement to purchase the UK healthcare business of Groupama Insurances, subject to the required regulatory approvals.

Research by Legal & General using Department for Work and Pensions statistics has revealed less than a fifth of employers are taking adequate steps to provide support for stressed employees in the...

The projected rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronic disease in the UK population to 2050 are increasing so rapidly that the Government’s "fondness for ‘nudging’" - or persuading people to make...