mental health

NHS centralisation and increasing transparency on prices and services will significantly narrow the range of mental health services available, Laing and Buisson has warned.

Workplace health initiatives, specifically for mental health, should be treated as part of a firms operational risk profile not as separate a health issue, according to behavioural psychologists.

The insurance industry needs to build packages that are more accessible to lower earners and smaller workers to help bring rising sickness absences down, Dame Carol Black has said.

The health and social care body NICE has opened consultation on draft guidance to help people stop smoking in secondary care, with a focus on acute mental health services and maternity.

Awareness of mental ill health in the workplace has increased significantly, but there is still work to be done, a British Journal of Psychiatry paper has shown.

Mental health is now the biggest cause of claim in group risk markets. Katharine Moxham outlines the scale of the problem.

Legislation repealing the workplace discrimination of people with mental health conditions within certain roles has been passed by Parliament.

Legal & General has partnered with a national charity to help employers minimise absences due to staff mental health problems.

Aviva has reported concern about long waiting times for mental health treatments despite the government having pledged to provide greater access by 2015.

UK companies are falling behind the rest of Europe in implementing measures to effectively tackle and deal with stress in the workplace, according to a study carried out by Vigeo.