Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing

BSI’s BS 30480 – Suicide and the Workplace provides a framework to help organisations develop a more informed, compassionate and coordinated approach to suicide prevention and support.

Trust Retail has announced a corporate partnership with the Retail Trust to strengthen wellbeing support for UK retail workers. The move comes as new research highlights growing concerns about mental health, financial pressures and customer abuse across the sector.

Demand for sleep support, men’s health and hormonal health is rising sharply among UK employees, suggesting employers need to rethink traditional, single-issue workplace wellbeing benefits.

The extension of statutory bereavement leave, expected from April 2027, will require employers to review their bereavement and compassionate leave policies.

More than half of UK professionals report experiencing workplace burnout, with understaffing and heavier workloads emerging as the biggest drivers, according to research from Robert Half.

Up to a third of employees whose employer provides mental health support may not realise it is available to them, according to research from Simplyhealth.

More people are referred for mental health support in October than in any other month of the year, according to five years of data from nurse-led support provider RedArc.

Mental health has become the most common area of preventative health and wellbeing support offered by UK employers, with 57 per cent providing initiatives designed to help employees manage stress, support their mental health and build resilience.

Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA England) has launched Workplace Mental Health First Aid Standards as research finds employers are under growing pressure to support staff mental health.

Employers may be significantly overestimating how comfortable their employees feel talking about health and wellbeing at work.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has launched the first international standard covering menstruation and menopause in the workplace, as research shows employees increasingly expect employers to provide practical support.

Personal Group has extended its partnership with Simplyhealth in a move that could give up to one million more people access to health and wellbeing services through their workplace benefits.

We are often told that we should separate our personal identity from our jobs. We should leave work at the office, avoid defining ourselves by our careers and remember that employment is only one part of who we are.

Simplyhealth Group has acquired dental technology, media and education business FMC, expanding its reach across UK dentistry at a time when access to dental care is becoming an increasingly important workforce health issue.

More than four in 10 Mental Health First Aiders have supported someone experiencing thoughts of suicide in their role, but many employers still lack a clear process for what should happen next.

Almost half of UK employers provide no dental benefit to employees, despite HR leaders ranking workforce productivity, retention and wellbeing among their biggest people priorities for 2026, new research has found.