Case study: Managing mental health in the workplace

Nottingham City Council has made substantial progress in tackling the notably high level of sickness absence due to mental health problems by recruiting a specialist mental health advisor.

  • Mental arithmetic    By Simon Chilton, mental health and wellbeing advisor at Nottingham City Council, writing in Occupational Health magazine.

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    Mental health at work    Writing in Occupational Health, Carol Donnan reports from the RCN OH Forum Northern Ireland conference on mental health at work.

    Mental health in focus    Delegates at a LexisNexis IRS conference on tackling mental ill health at work heard that 80% of employees admitted to hospital with mental ill health do not return to work afterwards.

    Nottingham City Council cuts mental health absence by 30%  Mental health-related absence in one Midlands local authority has fallen by 30% in a year following the recruitment of a specialist management adviser, Sarah Silcox reports.

    Work can help beat mental health social exclusion  Employers are to get more help to recruit and retain individuals who have mental health problems under a new government action plan to tackle social exclusion. IRS Employment Review reports.

    Creating mentally healthy workplaces  Writing in IRS Employment Review, Sarah Silcox asks what employers can do to help tackle mental ill health?