Campaign urges construction to focus on health, safety and wellbeing

This October, a nationwide campaign will be encouraging firms in the construction industry to pause work and focus on health, safety and wellbeing. The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) will be using their long-running Stop. Make a Change campaign to highlight 3 key health and safety risks in the civil engineering sector. These risks...

New framework launched to reduce health inequalities

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a new framework to help reduce health inequalities. The health and care watchdog worked in partnership with National Voices and the Point of Care Foundation to develop a self-assessment and improvement framework to help Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) address health inequalities. Integrated care systems (ICSs) are local...

Frontline staff most likely to face work-related violence

Working with the public can now be identified as one of the biggest risk factors for work-related violence. Workers in public-facing sectors such as retail, public transport and healthcare have reported frequent and sometimes very serious abuse in recent years. In fact, the British Retail Consortium have reported that violence and abuse against their...