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Top Tips to Help You Reduce Stress
Mental health is a hot topic right now. The global pandemic has had a big impact on people’s lives, from adapting to new working environments, to increased anxiety and financial worries caused by lockdown, furlough and redundancies.
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What Medicash’s Fresh New Approach Means for Health Cash Plans
Medicash has relaunched itself in recent months into a provider that centres around an app in a move fitting for the modern, technology-based era.
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Recognising Mental Health Issues in the Workplace
Good mental health is essential to an employee’s performance and sense of wellbeing in the workplace, as this can have an impact on their productivity and creativity. Recognising the signs and helping a colleague through a mental health issue are vital tools for every organisation to have.
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Forming New Habits in the New Year
Forming new habits is the key to long term behaviour change. In this blog post, we cover how creating new habits can help you stay committed.
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Three steps to planning your employee health & wellbeing strategy
Nutritionist & Exercise Scientist Declan Doyle from Health@Work discusses the three key steps for planning and implementing your health & wellbeing strategy.
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How to support your employees’ wellbeing (without telling them)
Nutritionist & Exercise Scientist Declan Doyle from Health@Work refers to an interesting study which might help you in supporting employee wellbeing.
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11 Most Famous Health Myths (That won't Go Away)
Nutritionist & Exercise Scientist Declan Doyle from Health@Work sheds some light on common health myths and shares his own discoveries.
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How to fit health and fitness into your daily routine
Nutritionist & Exercise Scientist Declan Doyle from Health@Work shares his advice on how you can fit your health and wellbeing goals into a busy lifestyle.
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Want to manage your weight? Start here.
Nutritionist & Exercise Scientist Declan Doyle from Health@Work shares his views on weight management.
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National Heart Month: Love Your Heart, Keep It Healthy
February marks National Heart Month. Here's some interesting facts about the heart and how you can keep yours healthy.
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Beat Blue Monday With Medicash
Beat "the most depressing day of the year" following our advice.
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Beat The Festive Bloat And Stay Healthy This Christmas
Our top 5 tips to avoid the festive bloat this Christmas
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The Myths of Cold and Flu Prevention: A surprise you won’t want this Winter…
We look at some common cold/flu prevention myths that the NHS has debunked.
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How to lessen the financial pain of staying in hospital
The government has recently announced that car parking charges for hospitals in England are to remain in place.
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5 Things You Didn't Know Were Bad For Your Teeth
We all know the things that we should avoid in order to keep our pearly whites in tip-top condition - fizzy drinks, coffee, red wine, smoking, sugary sweets; we have heard the warnings about these foods and drinks time and time again. But what you might not know is some of the every day, and supposedly healthy, things we do and eat that are actually just as damaging towards our dental health…
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UK's struggle with back problems
It is thought to be one of the biggest causes of absenteeism in the workplace and can involve severe pain.
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Healthy Summer Living: The Hidden Pitfalls
It’s that time of year again when the media bombards us with images of the celebs sporting the ‘perfect bikini body’ and every second magazine article seems to be encouraging us to ‘Spring into Summer’ with the latest workout tips and weight loss plans.
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Watch Your Back!
Every year, thousands of working people in the UK struggle with back problems. It is thought to be one of the biggest causes of absenteeism in the workplace and can involve severe pain.
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Match Fit or Couch Potato? Top Tips to Stay Healthy This Summer
Team GB’s performance in the Rio Olympics has been declared inspirational with people of all ages and sizes across the country becoming motivated to exercise and get fit.
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How To Avoid Gardening Injuries
As soon as the first warm day hits in spring, people head out to start getting their garden in shape ready for the summer.
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Lifting Technique: Why lift correctly and how do I do it?
According to NHS Choices one of the biggest causes of low back injury is incorrect lifting technique when performing manual handling. By adopting a better lifting technique, the likelihood of low back pain and injury can be reduced.
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Infographic: Healthcare Trends in the Workplace
Do employers believe they have a role to play in employee healthcare? Medicash has teamed up with Reward Magazine to run the rule over workplace health benefits.
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Watch Your Eye Health
William Shakespeare famously said, “The eyes are the windows to the soul” but the truth is that a closer look at the human eye can also reveal a great deal about our overall health. It makes real sense to take the right steps to protect your vision for the future and boost your general health at the same time.
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Keep an Eye on your Contact Lens Hygiene
More than 3.7m million people in the UK are contact lens wearers but how many of us know how to take care of them properly?
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The Elephant in the Workplace
Mental Health affects people everyday, but this week is an opportunity to raise awareness. Mental health has a massive effect on our society and workforce... just think about it.
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