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'Alarming' levels of PTSD identified among police workforce

Date:: 10 May 2019

Almost a fifth of police officers experience symptoms of either post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or "Complex PTSD", with PTSD rates in law enforcement almost five-times higher than across the general population.

Vodafone offers staff who experience domestic abuse additional leave

Date:: 7 March 2019

Vodafone Group is to offer all staff who experience domestic abuse 10 days' additional paid "safe leave", after it found almost a third of workers in the UK had experienced domestic abuse in some form.

'Proactive' OH service needed to improve NHS staff wellbeing

Date:: 21 February 2019

More support and a "proactive" occupational health service is needed to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of the 1.4 million NHS staff who work in some of the "most challenging conditions imaginable", Health Education England (HEE) has urged.

Four out of five police officers feel stressed or anxious

Date:: 14 February 2019

Seventy-nine per cent of police officers say they have felt feelings of stress and anxiety in the past 12 months according to a Police Federation of England and Wales survey of its members.

Flexible working doesn't diminish mums' chronic stress

Date:: 28 January 2019

Biological indications for chronic stress are 40% higher in women bringing up two children while working full-time compared with colleagues with no children.

Employers urged to sign charter on domestic violence

Date:: 27 November 2018

Employers are urging employers to take a more supportive role on domestic violence.

Stress causes loss of sleep for nearly half UK workforce

Date:: 7 November 2018

Work stress has led nearly half of UK workers to look for a new job, according to new research published on National Stress Awareness Day. And flexible work might provide some of the answer, finds a separate study.

Working days lost to stress increase by nearly a quarter

Date:: 1 November 2018

The number of working days lost to stress rose by almost a quarter last year, suggesting that employers need to do more to address this "growing epidemic", the TUC has said.

Petition calls for compulsory mental health first aiders at work

Date:: 10 October 2018

Mental health campaigners and businesses have delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for it to be compulsory to have mental health first aiders at work.

Mental health presenteeism on the rise

Date:: 10 October 2018

People are more likely to turn up to work despite a mental health problem according to an annual survey of employees' attitudes to sickness absence.

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