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WPA is extending mental health cover on its retail health insurance plans. Cover for hospital and outpatient treatment has been added to the existing health and wellbeing helplines and structured counselling sessions...

As plan B restrictions lift, insurers are intent on implementing a hybrid model where staff work from the office for part of the week and at home for the remainder. Earlier this...

The Swiss are flourishing while people from Britain, Hong Kong and Japan are struggling in terms of their mental health, according to Axa's 2022 Mind and Health and Wellbeing study. Depending on...

AIG Life has renewed its contract with global telehealth provider Teladoc Health to deliver its Smart Health service for a further four years. The firm says the early renewal of the contract...

Advisers are choosing not to force workers to return to the office amid the lifting of plan B restrictions. Last week, the UK government announced the lifting of plan B restrictions in...

Chief executive and founder of the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) Matt James is to step down following a decade in the role. PHIN said it has already begun the search for...

Return to work rehabilitation specialist Working To Wellbeing has launched a new line manager helpline, with an initial focus on supporting employees suffering with long Covid. The telephone-based helpline aims to enable...

LV= has launched a simpler version of its life and critical illness (CI) policy. LV= outlined the move in an interview with Health & Protection in October where the insurer revealed it...

Aegon has extended its immediate cover facility for business protection and relevant life to 180 days for life protection and 90 days for critical illness. It has also trimmed the income protection...

Pacific Life Re has appointed Nicholas Lax as head of research and development in its Europe business unit. Lax joined the firm in 2018 as a member of its research and development...