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03 October 2022At the SOM AGM in June it was agreed that SOM membership from 2023 should include online access to the Journal of Occupational Medicine as a default benefit of membership, with rates frozen for 2023 at £217/year.
The AGM requested this change to ensure membership is as accessible and affordable as possible, with consideration also of...
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02 September 2022
Guest blog by John Gilham, Head of Corporate Development at Gambling Education Network
Would you know if a family member, friend, or employee was suffering from...
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04 August 2022SOM is calling for organisations to take a strategic, planned, approach to managing Long COVID in the workforce. There needs to be early, appropriate intervention, using occupational health input - rather than leave it to individual line managers to decide how to best manage each case....
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02 August 2022Guest blog by Heather Taylor, Policy Analyst at The Work Foundation
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally shifted the way we work, with a rise in remote and hybrid working. While many workers, businesses and sectors have benefited from changing working practices...
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12 July 2022Guest blog by Alan Dovey, Clinical Director, Working Minds UK
Freudenberger coined the term “burnout” in his seminal 1974 book. It was a term at that time used to describe chronic drug use. Probably the most famous researcher that has taken up the cause is Christina...
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05 July 2022Guest blog by Dr J Pearson, Chief Medical Officer, Health Drive Digital
Driver shortages, poor facilities for drivers and worry over our supermarket shelves not being full – all recently in the news. But is not the real concern drivers' poor state of health? Drivers are...
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28 June 2022Guest blog by Sharon Woodhouse OBE LLM MSc RGN RM Committee Member
I have been involved in occupational health (OH) since 2001, qualifying as a Specialist Practitioner OH at Masters level in...
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23 June 2022With the NHS under continuing pressure, occupational health (OH) experts have called on businesses to rethink how they tackle Long COVID and mental health issues in the workplace.
Speaking at an Institute of Directors (IoD) Scotland event on Wednesday to mark...
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22 June 2022Guest blog for Occupational Health Awareness Week by Ross Clark, Head of Workplace Protection Team, The Institute of Occupational Medicine
Occupational health or medicine and occupational hygiene have long...
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21 June 2022- New poll finds 68% UK adults think occupational health is important but just 10% believe some current workplace health & wellbeing services important
- Ill health cost £10.6 billion to UK businesses in 2018-19, with 1.7 million suffering work-related health conditions in 2020-21...