Compliance & Regulation

The Women and Equalities Committee has called on Public Health England to use a ‘Health at Every Size’ (HAES) approach over use of Body Mass Index to determine a person’s healthy weight....

Employers should do more to reassure staff that data gathered from services like employee assistance programs (EAPs) are shared in an aggregated rather than on an individual level. The warning follows research...

LV= has been accused by an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) of not properly consulting members over the life insurer’s sale to private equity firm Bain Capital. In December the group announced its...

Generali Global Assistance is to support upcoming smart vaccination and digital health pass initiatives by adding custom options to its travel insurance offerings. The travel insurance provider revealed the group and its...

Thirteen healthcare organisations are calling on the government to follow through on its 2018 promise to strip the General Medical Council (GMC) of its power to appeal decisions made by the Medical...

UK employers should consider taking out health or income protection insurance due to the growing threat posed by long Covid. This is the warning from leading law firm Irwin Mitchell in light...

Failing to ensure employee benefits are correctly aligned to contracts of employment could leave firms facing uninsured liabilities running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. This is the warning from health and...

Digital health provider and back-to-work specialist Reframe has appointed former McKesson and Amazon director Catherine McDermott (pictured) as CEO. McDermott’s appointment comes as the business looks to diversify from its core offering...

Entries are now open for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2021 – and financial advisers and employee benefit consultancies large and small are invited to put forward submissions outlining how they...

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) – the independent, government-mandated source of information on privately-funded healthcare in the UK – has announced the appointment of three new non-executive directors. A PHIN spokesperson...