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A primarily digital GP service has published research which shows its patients incurred acute hospital costs between 15% and 35% lower than the regional average. It said the lower costs were incurred...

More than 13,000 employers have been warned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for not providing a Covid-19 safe working environment. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed that as...

Royal London is to re-join the Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) this month after a year away. The move takes the total number of IPTF members to 29, including 14 full members, nine...

The pandemic has had the combined effect of focusing people's minds on the fact they are not invincible and causing many to interrogate their employer's group risk offering for the first time....

The government has dismissed calls to require businesses to report long term sickness due to stress as a health and safety issue. It said doing so would not be appropriate because “stress...

Almost a quarter of people who think they have had long Covid say it has adversely affected their household finances. And 36% of working adults who may have experienced long Covid said...

Private equity firm FPE Capital has bought employee benefits platform provider Zest Technology for an initial £10m, with a potential further £1.5m due depending on revenue delivered in the full 2021 year....

Zurich has appointed Justin Delaney as CEO for Australia and New Zealand takings responsibility for its life and investments (L&I) and general insurance (GI) businesses the countries. Delaney (pictured) is replacing Tim...

Global reinsurer PartnerRe has adopted software provider IPipeline's SSG Digital platform. Using the platform will enable PartnerRe to host multiple insurer underwriting philosophies in a single engine and facilitate fully underwritten comparison...

Nine in 10 adults have Covid antibodies in every part of the UK except Scotland, according to official data. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed 91.9% of the...