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The vast majority of workers aren’t satisfied with the mental health support their employers provide. This is according to PIB Employee Benefits’s latest Mind the Gap survey, which polled 1,000 UK employees....

While two in three workers in the UK report moderate-to-serious psychological distress, only one in four have a formal mental health diagnosis.  This is according to Vitality's Global Health Index 2026, conducted...

Overall mortality rates in the period up to and including Q3 2026 were lower than in the first three quarters of any earlier year on record for men and women. This is...

LSL Financial Services has appointed Matt Surridge to the newly created role of propositions director. In his new role, Surridge (pictured) leads the development of LSL's broker proposition across the Primis network...

Axa Health is rolling out additional testing and treatment options across its men’s health, women’s health, fertility, pregnancy and early parenthood and menopause support services in collaboration with Peppy. These tests include...

An estimated 40,000 people were added to NHS waiting lists in England in August. According to official data, the number of referral to treatment (RTT) pathways where a patient was waiting to...

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t infallible and in one instance even created its own Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rule. This is according to Justin Harper, chief marketing officer at LifeSearch (pictured), who spoke...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to take up a number of recommendations from the Mills Review including becoming more of an agentic regulator and scaling up innovation services, all while resisting...

To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 October), Zurich has launched a specialised pregnancy and baby loss support service.  Empathy's Pregnancy Loss Support programme, available at no extra cost to life protection...

Concerns about affordability and uncertainty around the suitability and value of protection insurance rank among the key reasons putting people off from taking out cover. This is according to early findings from...