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Title: Who cares for the carers?
22 December 2017Guest blog from Jocelyn Cornwell, Chief Executive of The Point of Care Foundation
In recent years we have seen more and more stories about the difficulties of working in healthcare. For the majority who work in the NHS, pay restraint has been particularly keenly felt, and for the public it is perhaps the most visible...
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22 December 2017The Society of Occupational Medicine has increased its membership by more than 150 since August 2017, with membership currently standing at just over 1560.
SOM members include occupational health physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, and hygienists. For a full list of the healthcare professionals who can join SOM,...
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30 November 2017The government has launched plans to transform disability employment over the next ten years. The plans, which seek to increase the number of disabled people in work, include appointing an Expert Working Group on Occupational Health to champion, shape and drive a programme of work to take an in-depth look at the sector.
Read the...
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27 November 2017The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) was pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to the Government’s Green Paper on work, health and disability earlier this year.
Since then, we have been working closely...
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13 November 2017Save the date for the Society of Occupational Medicine / Faculty of Occupational Medicine conference 'Occupational Health 2018', 25th - 27th June in London.
For more information please visit the Occupational Health 2018 website.
We look forward to...
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10 November 2017On Tuesday 7th November, the Society of Occupational Medicine joined the Carnegie UK Trust and the College of Medicine for a discussion on 'What is Good Work?' Representatives from the policy, health, business, trade union and academic communities were invited to attend the House of Lords luncheon hosted by SOM Patron Lord David Blunkett....
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03 November 2017SOM CEO Nick Pahl reports on the International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH) conference in Edinburgh in August. The conference saw occupational health epidemiologists from across the world meet to present their latest research and review research needs in the future. The symposium suggested it is time to put...
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03 November 2017“Mental Health conditions are common and have the potential to blight the lives of individuals, their families and their friends. They also have an enormous economic and social cost. While rates of mental disorders are slightly lower in the Armed Forces than in the general population it is great to see the Ministry of Defence partnering with...
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06 October 2017The SOM QAAS scheme is now ISO 9001 certified. This independent assessment was conducted by the British Assessment Bureau, a leading Certification Body, and demonstrates the SOM’s commitment to customer...
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04 October 2017Event takes a hard look at efforts to achieve workplace mental health and how they can transform the workplace.
Are the places we work more attuned to mental health and responsive to mental illness in 2017? That was the focus of a Society of Occupational Medicine and British Psychological Society event on workplace mental health...