Guest blog by Professor Richard Preece It was good to read James’ blog on preparing OH support to NHS Nightingale North West Hospital (NNH). I would like to express my sincere thanks to James, Tok and all the HealthWork team, and offer a few thoughts from the other side of the partnership. In the…
Guest blog by Dr James Quigley, Medical Director, Healthwork Dr James Quigley shares his experiences of supporting the executive leadership team at NHS Nightingale North West (NHSN NW) to set up a pop-up OH service for the field hospital in Manchester. We were first contacted on 31st March and…
By Dr Yvette Martyn On 28th April 2020 it is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The International Labour Organization (ILO) started the World Day initiative in 2003 in order to stress the prevention of accidents and diseases at work. 28th April is also International Workers' Memorial Day…
Guest blog by Lt General Louis Lillywhite, Chatham House and Occupational Medicine Consultant The COVID -19 outbreak has already disrupted the global economy, and the demand for hospital care is exceeding the capacity of many nations’ health systems. The pace of transmission of the virus and the…
Guest blog by Prof Alison Leary, Professor of Healthcare and Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University The recent COVID-19 situation has exacerbated a workforce crisis in healthcare. A global workforce shortage of occupations such as nursing 1 mean that facing any kind of surge in demand…
Guest blog by Phil Waterworth, Clinical Operations Director at Team Prevent As the COVID-19 crisis escalated, it became clear very quickly that managers in the NHS required help in supporting staff with underlying health conditions to remain in work and with redeployment. We developed a ‘Managers…
Guest blog by Dr Roxane L. Gervais, Chartered Psychologist and Registered Occupational Psychologist The past few weeks have brought monumental change across every aspect of society. Work, health care, social care, education, family life, have all had to undergo significant alterations to deal with…
Guest blog by Stephen Bevan, Head of HR Research Development at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) At the end of Week 2 of the ‘New Normal’, thousands of UK workers will be reflecting on whether working from home is quite the liberating experience they had always imagined. Trying to…
Guest blog by Dr Charlie Vivian, Consultant Occupational Physician at Icarus Health COVID-19 is setting up to be the defining event of our lifetimes. Wars, disasters and tragedy happen with distressing frequency across the world - for most of us, it is others who experience these. But suddenly, we…
Guest blog by Professor Gail Kinman and Dr Kevin Teoh Recent steps taken to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus means that many more people will be working from home for the foreseeable future. The good news is that working from home can improve wellbeing, enhance work-life balance and boost…
Guest blog by Kavita Reddi, co-founder of Voxta Technology and data are a crucial part of halting the spread of the COVID-19 - mapping the arch of the virus, determining who is vulnerable, defining priorities for intervention, and developing vaccines and cures rely on biotechnology. Data informed…
Guest blog by Jackie Barber, Business Psychologist, The Wellbeing Project Working from home was once the perquisite of the fortunate few, but new studies suggest that this work arrangement is slowly but steadily rising. A CIPD report (1) into flexible working shows that as many as 33% of employees…