Firms Must 'Tackle Mental Health'

Research carried out at Loughborough University suggests that half of those individuals who returned to work after physical illness such as chronic back pain, cancer or heart disease reported mild to moderate symptoms of depression.

In-depth interviews with 30 of the 264 employees studied suggested they found it harder to tell their managers about their depression than their original illness.

Some three quarters of people who had been on leave with a mental health condition reported symptoms of continuing depression.

The research indicated that they were less likely to see well constructed return to work schemes than their physically ill counterparts.

This was despite the fact that their illness was much more likely to have been work related in the first place.

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