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Cignpost is helping industries that are heavily reliant on an in-person workforce, such as production companies, access healthcare via an alternative route.

October is National Cholesterol Month, also known as Cholesterol Awareness Month. According to the NHS, more than two in every five people in the UK suffer from high cholesterol, which makes it important for all of us to know more about how cholesterol impacts our health.

Women are statistically less likely to survive their first heart attack than men are, this is likely due to the signs of a heart attack being harder to recognise and treatment is consequently often delayed.

The travel industry was one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a decline in tourist arrivals of over 70% in both 2020 and 2021, according to statistics from UNWTO. Luckily, the industry is currently undergoing a revival. After years spent under lock and key, people from all over the globe are feeling the urge to get moving once again.

Deadlines are always tight within the construction industry, and as we know, time is money. So, what are the most common reasons for delays in construction projects? We highlight six of them below.

Six months after it began, Cignpost’s Pathfinders programme has now reached its conclusion. The programme supported five people to undertake a paid placement in television production with the BBC. We recently caught up with Ella Stockton to find out more about her experience of the scheme, and how it’s shaped her expectations for the future.

Is your heart health a top priority? It should be! Did you know that, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), someone dies from a heart or circulatory disease every three minutes in the UK? The BHF further reports that over 7.6 million Britons currently live with heart disease!

It's amazing how many pointless meetings were held pre-pandemic. Nowadays, we’re all more inclined to think carefully about the message we need to get across and whether or not it's necessary to communicate it face-to-face. If it isn’t, pop your thoughts into an email instead, saving your team time and reducing concerns about potential COVID exposure.

The global film industry has continued to recover after a disruptive period, with many high-budget films scaling up production as COVID-19 restrictions relax. The UK film industry has also made a similar recovery, with The Guardian publishing an article titled “UK film and TV industry bounces back from COVID with record £5.6bn spend.”

For years, men have been told to look out for certain symptoms when it comes to the detection of prostate cancer: frequent and difficult urination, decreased force when urinating, an enlarged prostate, and more. However, recently a study by Cambridge University has found that there is no causal link between these symptoms and prostate cancer, with research suggesting that the prostate may even be smaller when cancer is present.

After a disastrous 2020, sporting events have made a massive comeback. Many of these events have been reopened to the public, providing the industry with a much-needed boost to make up for the lockdowns and various other restrictions that occurred due to COVID-19.

Producers of UK independent film & TV are waiting for the conclusion of negotiations between Pact and Bectu about the industry's pay and working conditions. There is concern that these negotiations may cause the cost of making films to rise further and exceed productions’ already-limited budgets.

Want to know some practical steps you can take to protect your heart? We've put together 5 top tips…

Against a backdrop of rising COVID cases here in the UK and overseas, the Film & TV industry are reviewing and increasing their COVID protection measures, with Hollywood sets extending COVID measures into the autumn.

I want you to cast your mind back to summer 2020.

It was towards the end of the first wave of infections in the pandemic. Vaccines were still a distant prospect, infection rates in the UK remained high and testing was still very much in its infancy, taking a couple of days to get a result.

With the assistance of Censuswide, Cignpost performed a survey of over 2000 people from a variety of sectors and regions across the UK with the aim of learning if and how the pandemic has affected Brits' behaviour regarding their health.

Using Censuswide, Cignpost recently commissioned a survey of over 2000 people from a range of sectors and regions across the UK, looking at whether or not the pandemic has affected Brits' behaviour when it comes to their health.

We are proud to announce that Cignpost is now a member of the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA), further demonstrating our commitment to improving standards and best practice, which, in turn, deliver better patient outcomes. BIVDA is the UK industry association for manufacturers and distributors of IVD products, and currently represents over 95% of the industry and more than one hundred organisations, from British start-ups to UK branches of multinational firms.

We have recently partnered with LumiraDx to offer their rapid-result COVID testing technology to the elite sport and film and TV production sectors, with the technology able to provide gold-standard results in minutes.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is the UK’s leading business organisation with over 190,000 member companies representing more than 7 million people. The CBI has recently set up, for the first time, a new Health Council to bring together businesses, Government and civil society with the aim of improving health outcomes across the UK. With this new focus on health, Cignpost has now joined the CBI to ensure our voice is heard in this important debate.

Cignpost hosted a fascinating discussion with an expert panel to examine how film and TV producers can mitigate risk on set now that the Production Restart Scheme (PRS) has ended. The discussion was chaired by former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson, now Chair of the Laboratory & Testing Industry Organisation (LTIO), and featured experts from the production, healthcare and insurance industries.

This week, we checked in with Lydia to learn a bit more about her background and her desire to join the industry, and see how she’s settled into working on BBC Comedy.

Since the start of the pandemic, Cignpost has worked with our partners to deliver 4.5 million COVID-19 tests, keeping people and businesses safe and secure and offering advanced surveillance and business continuity solutions based on speed, reliability and efficiency.

With the government encouraging staff to return to their workplaces, the time is now to make sure your employees feel safe and supported in coming back to crowded offices. Here are a few tips on how you as an employer can make the transition easier.