Employers will doubtless have read numerous articles telling them how bad workplace stress is and how the recession is exacerbating matters - articles that probably cause more stress and leave them...

BT has revealed more than 5,000 employees have undertaken an online risk assessment for diabetes in just six weeks.

A qualification for managers to help improve the health and wellbeing of their staff is being piloted by EEF, the manufacturers organisation.

Workplace stress is set to cost UK businesses more than 673 million this year, equating to 13.5 million stress-related sick days.

Health and wellbeing consulting and brokerage firm, Private Health Partnership (PHP) has acquired Dorchester-based Healthcare Matters.

The cost of providing health benefits to employees increased by 4% in 2008 and the number of private medical insurance claims in the same period rose by 3%, according to Mercer.

Haymarket Media has run its first corporate wellbeing event for two days to help staff maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The TUC has advised employers not to panic over the recent media furore surrounding swine flu by stocking up on drugs but to consider contingency plans should "hundreds of thousands of people" become...

Healthcare Connections, which holds the UK's largest independent stockpile of antiviral medication outside of the Government, has confirmed that a major bank has this week registered all 20,000 of its...

The NHS has launched an independent review into the health and wellbeing of its workforce, in order to devise methods to improve staff wellbeing.

The past year has seen the most difficult economic climate for decades - indeed for many people it will have been the worst they have encountered in their working life. And HR professionals are facing...

The Department of Health has called for employers in the public sector to encourage their staff to lose weight - starting with the NHS.