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  Join our next Workplace Health Insights virtual event on Thursday 20 April at 11:00am. Poor mental health costs UK employers up to £56bn a year1. Despite increased awareness of mental health...

Zurich has joined CIExpert's policy information hub Insight Zone. The hub expands the existing comparison service offer a broader perspective on an insurer's policy propositions.   Zurich joins other six other insurers...

LV= more than doubled trading profit from its protection business in 2022 with new protection sales rising 8% on the previous year. The mutual completed new sales of £42m in regular premium...

Government has launched a public consultation on plans to share data from private healthcare providers with the NHS. The project would create a single source of healthcare data in England with NHS-funded...

Shepherds Friendly has corrected the value of income protection (IP) claims it paid in 2022, confirming it paid £2.25m in benefits to policyholders. The mutual previously told Health & Protection that it...

Group Risk Development (Grid) has written to chancellor Jeremy Hunt expressing concerns about HM Revenue & Customs "flawed" interpretation of taxation on group income protection (GIP), within the context of an optional...

Bupa has blamed a dearth of dentists and rising running costs as it is slashing dental services by closing, merging or selling 85 dental practices across the country. Announcing the move, Bupa...

Record low levels of satisfaction with GP services and NHS dentistry drive dissatisfaction with the NHS to an all time nadir in 2022. The latest British Social Attitudes Survey into public satisfaction...

Seven in 10 large companies say they find it difficult to ensure communication of health and wellbeing support is always relevant to employees, according to research from Towergate Health & Protection. The...

Aviva has launched a cost of living support scheme allowing existing individual protection customers to cut the value of their cover. However policyholders will need to answer medical questions later if they...