The SOM 90th Anniversary Gala Dinner is taking place on
Friday 26th September 2025, 6.30pm Apothecaries’ Hall, London
Scan the QR code in the attached link for further details and to register.
Comments from the Council for Work and Health on Government consultations May / June 2025
Attached is a note which summarises the Council for Work and Health response in addition to the specific questions in the Government Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working consultation on reform to health and disability benefits and employment support, and the Council’s feedback on the Discovery Report from the Keep Britain Working independent review of the role of employers in tackling health based economic inactivity and promoting healthy and inclusive workplace.
Click here to read the summary.
AGM 2025
Chairman’s Report to the AGM on 29 May 2025
Pathways to work, reforming benefits and support to get Britain working Green Paper (1.4.25)
| The Government are looking for responses to the Green Paper published on 18 March 2025 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper Individual member organisations of the Council will wish to contribute their own response, but having spoken with the Chief Medical Adviser at DWP, Dr Gail Allsopp recently, a consensus response from the Council for Work and Health will be much valued. The Council will collate contributions from Members who submit a consensus response. It is important that the Council, as an umbrella organisation, has a presence in the consultation. The consultation closes at midnight on 30th June, so that a DRAFT response can be considered by Board and then Council in May as agenda items at these meetings, and then be sent to Government following the Council meeting on 29th May. |
RoSPA – Call for a National Accident Prevention Strategy (1.3.25)
RoSPA call for a National Accident Prevention Strategy – for further details see:
RoSPA – National Accident Prevention Strategy Report v1
NSOH Webpage 1.3.25
The NSOH have purchased a webpage within Nurses.co.uk, a career and recruitment organisation and is advertising OH as a career.
iOH article: AI in Occupational Health
SOM Winter Magazine 2025 (1.3.25)
The SOM Winter magazine is published here.
Funding opportunities (1.3.25)
Here are two funding opportunities that Council members may be interested in:
UKR Creating opportunities – rethinking economic inactivity
NIHR Work and Health Research Awards
Keep Britain Working Review (Launched 24 January 2025) 1.3.25
A new “Keep Britain Working” review has been launched [Friday 24 January] to explore how to urgently support people with long-term illnesses or disabilities back into work, and to stay in work
The launch of an independent review led by Sir Charlie Mayfield, which will publish recommendations to the government, is due to be published in the late summer or early autumn.
The Council would like to encourage our members to access the Discovery document once it is published and contribute where able.
This will be an important piece of work to support individuals better in the work and health space.
To see the announcement of this review, please click here.