Wellbeing

NHS England has confirmed plans to cut centrally funded occupational health services for GPs, unless there are 'performance concerns', despite increasing GP stress levels.

Wellbeing will be the ‘new priority' for employers this year amid greater debates around healthcare and group risk issues and challenges, Towers Watson has said.

Almost seven in ten (69%) employees say that flexible working is critical in easing work-related stress, according to a survey.

Nearly 650,000 UK workers call in sick each week, according to figures from the British Heart Foundation.

Almost a third of people who have been treated for cancer say they felt pressure to ‘bounce back to normal' more quickly than they would have liked, Bupa has said.

Employers are less likely to increase staff levels in 2014 as they expect productivity to improve once the economy picks up, research has suggested.

While the economy is on the mend, employees remain impacted by high levels of work-related stress which is costing employers over £460m; research has found.

Levels of personal wellbeing are strongly correlated to regional employment rates, findings from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.

Absence rates have returned to 2011 and 2010 levels averaging 7.6 days per employee, after falling slightly in 2012, the annual CIPD and Simplyhealth Absence Management survey has revealed.

Employers can be required to fund private medical treatment as part of a reasonable adjustment to help staff return to work, a court has ruled.