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Long-term sickness

  • Addressing the rise in long-term sickness could unlock £57bn windfall, research shows

    June 25, 2024

    Reintegrating between half and three-quarters of those who have dropped out of the workforce since 2020 could generate anywhere between £35bn and £57bn over the next five years, the analysis suggests.

  • Focus on health to cut ballooning welfare bill, new report argues

    June 20, 2024

    The next government should focus on addressing underlying health conditions rather than embarking on a benefits "clampdown", a new report has argued.

  • Employment support needs to be a ‘top priority’ as long-term sickness hits new record

    June 11, 2024

    New figures out today showed that 9.4m people were economically inactive in the three months to April, up nearly 400,000 on last year, with long-term sickness a major contributor.

  • Sunak’s clampdown on ‘sick note culture’ is Back to Basics 2.0 – and it may end as badly

    May 1, 2024

    Sunak’s clampdown on 'sick note culture' has the whiff of John Major’s Back to Basics… and risks the same results, writes Simon Neville.

  • UK firms want tax incentives to invest in employee health amid growing sickness crisis

    April 30, 2024

    The report comes amid a growing debate about the impact of long-term sickness on the UK labour force.

  • Will Rishi Sunak’s clampdown on ‘sick note culture’ tackle long-term sickness?

    April 20, 2024

    "Reforms to fit notes...won’t help the 2.8m people currently out of work due to their long-term health conditions," David Finch, assistant director at the Health Foundation, said.

  • Action ‘urgently needed’ as UK long-term sickness climbs to record high of 2.8m

    April 16, 2024

    Recent research from the Resolution Foundation found that the rise in long-term sickness over the past few years is the longest sustained rise since the 1990s.

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