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Mental ill health 'costs £1,000 per employee'
Businesses across Britain are losing £1,000 a year for every person they employ because of mental ill health among their staff, says a report published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.Mental Health at Work: Developing the business case finds that the total cost to UK employers of mental ill health among their staff is more £25bn – that is equivalent to £1,000 per employee.The cost...
News | 13 Dec 2007
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Over half would not employ someone with mental illness
A recent survey has suggested that over half of people in the UK would not employ someone who admitted to have a mental illness, even if they were the best candidate for the job. Further findings revealed that 92% of the British public believes admitting to having a mental illness would damage someone’s career. The three careers respondents believed would be most damaged were doctors (56%), emergency services (54...
News | 27 Aug 2009
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Ageing workforce and ill health threaten UK’s future
...ritish businesses, according to a new report from health and care company, Bupa. In the next 20 years, the number of workers with diabetes or respiratory diseases, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, will increase by at least 7% to over four million, while the rate of mental illness in the workforce will rise by 5% to affect 4.2 million workers. In the same period, the average age of the workforce will reach 43, while 68 will become the average age of retirement by 2050. Rates of major disease in the workforce will escalate through the impact of ageing alone, with ...
News | 2 Apr 2009
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Employees in high-stress jobs twice as likely to develop mental illness
Research has shown that employees with heavy workloads, tight deadlines and overbearing bosses are twice as likely to develop mental illnesses as those in jobs with less pressure and stress. Every year one in 20 workers becomes clinically ill as a result of work-related stress, leading to depression and anxiety. The annual cost in lost productivity to the economy is estimated at £12bn. Researchers analysed 891 workers, ...
News | 2 Aug 2007
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New government guidance on mental illness
Work and Pensions Minister Lord McKenzie and Health Minister Ivan Lewis have called on businesses to tackle the stigma attached to mental health conditions in the workplace, and launched a new managers' guide containing advice on how to support staff. One in four employees will experience a mental condition at some point, but more than half will be too embarrassed to tell their employers, the Government has claimed. Research from t...
News | 15 Oct 2007
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Mental health issues ‘swept under the carpet’
The issue of mental ill health is still being swept under the carpet in most workplaces, with just four in ten employees saying they would feel confident to disclose a mental health problem to their employer. This is according to the latest research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), p...
News | 19 Dec 2011
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New work and mental health website launched
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has launched a new website offering information and guidance about mental health in the workplace. The Work and Mental Health website is divided into four main parts, and is aimed at workers, carers, employers and clinicians. Each section signposts relevant information and provides links to resources from other organisations. The website explains how work can be good f...
News | 16 Jun 2011
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Employers struggling with long-term staff ill health
...rding to Aviva, this is partly down to the fact that these days employers have to manage more complex illnesses in the workplace. While musculoskeletal problems still heavily contribute to work absence (27%), many companies now have to deal with highly emotive conditions such as cancer (19%), mental health issues (30%) and drink and drug related issues (16%). In addition nearly one in five employers (16%) have experienced staff with heart problems. While traditional business pressures remain – with just over a third (34%) stating that they were concerned about how to balance le...
News | 29 Mar 2011
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Pilot scheme to tackle workplace absence due to mental illness
This can only be a good thing. Many employers would bend over backwards to retain employees with serious physical illnesses or injury but lack of understanding of mental illnesses or the fact that it is still taboo for many people, means that employees with mental health problems often get short shrift and end up resigning or even being made redundant.Such employees are often not in a position to fight for themselves owing to their conditions, or they are fearful o...
Comment | 15 Sep 2005
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Mental health support lines launched for employers
The Government has today announced new dedicated advice lines for small businesses as part of an overhaul of support for people with mental health conditions. Nine occupational health advice line pilots have been launched today. The advice lines will give employers access to occupational health professionals and direct employers to advice and services. The occupational health advice lines for small businesses are being piloted in s...
News | 7 Dec 2009
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Reports calls for major re-think of mental health at work
There is a clear case for a new approach to mental health in the workplace, a major report published today has claimed.The report by the Foresight Group and sponsored by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), reveals the findings of an extensive study involving over 400 leading international experts, which show that taking u...
News | 22 Oct 2008
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Call for end to mental health discrimination in parliament
Mark Harper MP, Shadow Minister for Disabled People, has tabled an amendment to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill with the aim of removing the provisions in existing legislation which mean that an MP automatically loses his or her seat if detained under the Mental Health Act. Harper argues that the exclusion for MPs adds to the negative stigma attached to mental health issues in the workplace. The Conservatives previously tabled the same amendment to the Equality Bill currently going through Parliament but the amendment was ruled out of the scope of...
News | 6 Nov 2009
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Should occupational health services at work be a legal requirement?
...urage more employers to offer occupational health services to employees, as well as further Government investment in the development and extension of services such as NHS Plus and Workplace Health Connect. By providing such services, employers are better able to manage individual absence cases. Mental ill health conditions are said to be the second largest cause of absences after muscloskeletal conditions. This presents a worrying trend for the Government as there is a huge increase in the proportion of people claiming incapacity benefits. Common mental ill health conditions include stress, dep...
News | 5 Jun 2007
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Support for government’s mental health strategy
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has endorsed a government initiative to tackle the most common health issue preventing people from supporting themselves in work: mental illness.Mental ill-health is now the single largest cause of both absence from work and people claiming incapacity benefit. Around 40% or 1m people receiving incapacity benefits do so for a variety of mental ill-health conditions which include common problems such as stress, anxiety and depression...
News | 6 Dec 2007
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Health lies scupper job offers
...n a job offer because an applicant has lied, or misrepresented their health situation on a health screening questionnaire. And in the past year, nearly 7% have dismissed someone after their employment commenced for the same reason. The findings come from a special report on ‘Employing people with mental health problems’ contained in the latest CIPD/KPMG Quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey. The report says that mental ill health is arguably one of the biggest issues facing the UK economy and society today. Government figures show that one in six people suffer with common mental health condit...
News | 5 Dec 2007
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Government support for employers on mental health
The Government has announced its plans to treble the number of employment advisors in GP surgeries and pilot a new £8m advice and support service for smaller businesses, as part of a new approach to help people with stress and other mental health conditions find and keep work.The plans include an advice and support service for employers, intended to help them manage and support people suffering with mental health conditions - enabling them to remain in or return to work.The committee is also looking into the feasibility of providin...
News | 28 Nov 2007
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Mental health sufferers need EU wide employment protection
Peers have called on the European Union (EU) to do more to help those suffering from mental health problems. The House of Lords European Union Committee is urging the Government and the EU to include further recognition of mental health problems in current anti-discrimination disability legislation. In their report - Improving The Mental Health Of The Population: Can The European ...
News | 24 Apr 2007
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Employers ill-equipped to take on staff with mental health problems
Government efforts to move people off benefit and into work risks failure unless employers get more support to recruit and retain staff with mental health problems, the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has commented. A DRC poll of small and medium sized businesses found that two thirds of those surveyed have no procedures in place for managing staff with mental health problems. The survey also indicates that managers are more reluctant ...
News | 17 Oct 2006
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Workplace mental health – the real costs
Nearly three in every ten employees will have a mental health problem in any one year. And absence due to mental health problems accounts for over 91 million working days each year. The findings come from the charity Shaw Trust, a leading provider of employment and training opportunities for disabled people. They estimate the real cost to business of ...
News | 10 Oct 2006
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Incapacity benefit shake-up raises concerns over mental health discrimination
In advance of Government proposals to change incapacity benefit the charity Rethink has called for an 'anti-stigma campaign' to encourage employers to hire jobseekers who have suffered from a mental illness. Under Government plans — set to be unveiled tomorrow (4 July) — employees who sign off work through stress will be targeted for therapy to get them back to work quicker. The Welfare Reform Bill will also toughen the criteria on which people are judged fit either to seek work or be ...
News | 3 Jul 2006
