Royal Society for Public Health

Working from home isn’t the problem – our attitude to workplace health is 💭 Since the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home has dominated conversations around work. However, these conversations sometimes conflate flexible work with healthy work, when this is only part of the picture. 📊 We spend more of our lives at work than anywhere else. Someone who starts work at 18 and works full time until they retire at 65 can expect to spend more than 75,000 hours in the workplace. Workplaces can be drivers of good health. As the way we work changes, so must our approach to workplace health. ✍️ William Roberts explores in Open Access Government: https://ow.ly/i1J950Xg7my

Today Ruth Strauss Foundation have launched their new Workplace Training Programme in collaboration with RSPH. This training offers a range of tools to ensure your teams are ready to respond when colleagues face the unknown — incurable illness, bereavement, caring responsibilities, and whatever else life sends their way. When workplaces are unprepared for these unexpected changes, the impact can result in lost talent, uncertainty for managers, and colleagues left unsure how to respond. 🔴 1 in 2 people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime 🔴 600 people leave their jobs every day to care for a relative 🔴 4 in 5 managers do not feel confident supporting a bereaved employee 🔴 64% of employers lack guidance on how to support staff with incurable illness 👉 Sign up now for our Workplace Training: Compassionate Management by visiting https://ow.ly/zOIy50XfnUE

On Wednesday, we'll be joined by Maximilian Limburg, Nicola Gray, Mary Cronin and Sophie Jullien for a free webinar looking at how we can prevent educational inequalities from widening. Don't miss out – book your free space now 👇

Last week we celebrated Public Health Workforce Week. As we heard stories from a whole range of people, sectors and organisations working tirelessly to improve the health of the public, one thing was made abundantly clear: there is no prevention without the public health workforce. That's why we're calling for better training, support and recognition for the workforce. ✍️ Help us make the call by writing to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting to ask him to support the workforce. Add your name ➡️ https://ow.ly/3mHb50X9c7b

Do you want to make a real difference to people's health and lives? Our latest online course covers the principles and concepts of social prescribing, laying out how you can: ✅ Understand the social prescribing pathway ✅ Conduct meaningful conversations with service users ✅ Make effective referrals to community services ✅ Assess and report the impact of social prescribing interventions Learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. Find out more and start learning today: https://ow.ly/gak850X9bwl

Public health interventions are popular with the public, says Richard Sloggett. So what's the issue? Fresh from party conference season, former government special advisor and Future Health founder Richard Sloggett joins William Roberts on Spread the Health to discuss: 🤝 The realities of public health policy making 💭 The challenges faced by the current government 📊 What a continuation of recent poll results could mean for the future of public health Search 'RSPH Spread the Health' wherever you get your podcasts to listen.

Are you a practitioner looking to expand your knowledge of occupational medicine? Our expert-led online course will give you the foundation you need to advance your career 🚀 Book your place before 30th November using code DOMEB26 for £150 off the course fee: https://ow.ly/KHK250X9hfS

Happy Allied Health Professionals Day! Today we're delighted to share the refreshed AHP Hub 🎉 As the third-largest workforce in the NHS, Allied Health Professions work across a range of valuable areas of health and wellbeing. This hub is designed to encourage best practice and tell success stories of AHPs who do incredible work every day to protect and improve the public's health. You can access the hub and all its great resources here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eRbz58xR #AHPsDay

Want to learn more about reducing violence in the workplace? Our online course is designed for anyone working in settings where you may be required to prevent and respond to incidents of violence. This includes retail, transport, education, leisure and hospitality. The course will help you: ➡️ Identify the drivers for violence prevention and reduction. ➡️ Understand the factors that cause violence. ➡️ Describe how using public health and trauma informed approaches can prevent violence. ➡️ Learn best practice to minimise the impact of violence. Find out more and start learning: https://ow.ly/ZL1N50X92ns

What are the politics of public health? 🤔 Public health doesn't exist in a vacuum. Just like any other sector, it has to navigate an increasingly tumultuous and uncertain political climate to achieve any real change. Fresh from party conference season, former government special advisor and Future Health founder Richard Sloggett joins William Roberts on Spread the Health to discuss: 🤝 The realities of public health policy making 💭 The challenges faced by the current government 📊 What a continuation of recent poll results could mean for the future of public health Search 'RSPH Spread the Health' wherever you get your podcasts to listen.