To demonstrate the contribution it has made to improving the safety and health of workers over the years, the charity will release a digital record of historic materials, long-thought to have been lost, and will use this opportunity to reaffirm its commitment to employers by offering targeted support to small charities and small companies. 

Speaking to PoliticsHome's Agnes Chambre, crossbench peer Lord Luce explains why it is so important for those suffering with chronic pain to be able to return to work.

Sarah Wootton, Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying has responded to the Colorado vote.

British Safety Council is calling upon young filmmakers to share their perception of risk in a new film competition.

Writing for PoliticsHome, Conservative MP David Burrowes calls for the Government to increase tax on strong ciders, saying there is no logic in a can of cider being cheaper than a bottle of water.

Simon Bottery, Director of Policy and External Affairs at Independent Age comments ahead of Peter Heaton-Jones MP's debate on care homes.  

"The new Prime Minister simply doesn’t want to touch health with a barge poll" says political consultant Adam Wright, giving his take on what Theresa May has in store for the health sector.

The DDU welcomes today’s news that GDC Case Examiners are now officially in post but will be vigilant in monitoring their impact on fitness to practise procedures.

New statistics from Mind highlight how little training GPs and practice nurses are being offered in mental health.

Lib Dem peer Baroness Floella Benjamin writes ahead of her House of Lords question on 'promoting oral health for children'.

Compassion in Dying responds to recent 'misleading' coverage of Advance Decisions (Living Wills).

The National Audit Office has found that the Department of Health and the NHS, working with other parts of government, have made progress to recover more of the cost of treating overseas visitors who are not entitled to free hospital treatment but, if current trends continue and the charging rules remain the same, will not achieve the government’s ambition of recovering up to £500 million a year by 2017-18.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) welcomes the GMC’s recognition of the intense pressure doctors are under and the measures it has taken to reduce the need for full scale investigations, to speed up the process and reduce the stress on those involved.

A study published in leading medical journal, The Lancet, has found that patients are motivated to lose weight by conversations with their GP and, if those conversations are used to direct them a weight loss programme, then patients lose ‘substantially more’ weight.

A new high profile report has revealed patients can be motivated to lose weight after GPs instigate a 30 second conversation about their size.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has provided advice to its members about prescribing benzodiazepines following media coverage on BBC 5 Live recently.

Stoptober, the hugely successful stop smoking campaign from Public Health England, launched on 1 October and Slimming World has become a partner for this year’s campaign, urging smokers to quit without putting on weight.

Diana Jupp, Acting Chief Executive of Bloodwise, comments on John Baron MP's article, detailing the points of his debate on NHS financing and cancer diagnosis.

Conservative MP John Baron writes for PoliticsHome ahead of his debate on earlier cancer diagnosis and NHS finances 

First resource of its kind informs LGBT people of their rights and choices for future care and treatment.

We receive calls to our Information Line from a wide variety of people who want to make sure that their wishes for future care and treatment are followed. We often hear from people who tell us that they have a mental illness, or have had a history of mental illness, and are concerned that their wishes might be ignored because of this.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, 85, has recorded a video saying he wants the option of assisted dying “when the time comes … to pass” and endorsing bills worldwide to authorize this end-of-life option.

Health expert and Select Committee member was interviewed with The House editor Daniel Bond about health policy issues at Conservative Party Conference this week.

Every year, the University of Manchester publish their National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH) report. This year marks the 20th anniversary, with the report drawing on two decades of evidence.