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HealthHero has relaunched its mental health specialist service, Validium. The relaunch includes a redesign of Validium's website. The firm, which offers a range of services including mental health support programmes, psychological services,...

Health tech form EQL has partnered with cashplan provider Medicash to launch Phio Engage, a self-care app for people needing musculoskeletal (MSK) treatment. The launch into the health insurance market follows the...

Aegon UK has become the latest insurer to remove most of its Covid underwriting restrictions for life and critical illness protection. The protection provider revealed it has now returned to its pre-pandemic...

As Pride month draws to a close, Health & Protection interviews Nigel Ranger, a senior customer service advisor at MetLife, about evolving attitudes towards LGBTQ+ communities working in the protection sector. How...

A GP has reported a patient threatened to kill themselves if they weren't bumped up the list for their first jab. The startling claim features in the findings from a survey by...

Four in 10 employees have developed mental health issues caused by work, according to a report from Business in the Community. Consequently, BITC's What If Your Job Was Good For You? report...

More UK employees think the tech they use at work adversely affects their mental wellbeing than those that do not. This is according to research from employee benefits consultancy Barnett Waddingham, which...

To mark Pride month, Health & Protection interviews Shaun White, senior manager of partnerships at life insurer OneFamily, about issues with bringing his whole self to work as a gay man working in the...

The number of pure protection sales has increased over the past year led by a huge increase in standalone critical illness sales. This is according to the Financial Conduct Authority's Product Sales...

Dublin-headquartered Spectrum.Life has raised €3m (£2.57m) to fund an overseas expansion of the digital health platform. The fundraising, completed with Act Venture Capital, will see the platform, which offers mental health and...