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Due to the way we deal with mental health in the west, most companies think they have ticked the box with an employee assistance programme (EAP), training staff as mental health first...

Vocational rehabilitation firm Working to Wellbeing is seeking to partner with intermediaries as it rolls out its personalised long Covid work support service to businesses. The service, available on a pay as...

Health and protection advisers want unconscious bias training to avoid the pitfalls of erroneously held preconceptions about their clients. The findings come from in-depth interviews with 100 advisers conducted by BVA BDRC...

Protection advice firm LifeSearch has joined 26 financial services firms in signing up to a new Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) charter aimed at increasing flexible working to improve diversity and equality...

Workers with post Covid syndrome want their employers to adopt a flexible, collaborative approach to easing them back into work. This is according to Dr Jenny Lunt, lecturer in health psychology and...

Advisers and brokers still have time to submit their entries for the UK Health & Protection Awards. The awards feature the best of the advisers, brokers, insurers and providers operating in the...

Royal London paid out a record £591m in protection claims last year with £13m paid to families who had experienced a death due to Covid-19. The mutual insurer revealed it paid 99.6%...

Safeguarding basic benefits such as medical insurance and pensions has created a better sense of security among Ikea's workers in the pandemic. This is according to Ulrika Biesèrt, global people and culture...

LV= is extending both its payment break and premium and cover reduction options until the end of the year. The measures are available for a maximum of six months and customers who...

More than two in three workers are worried about a loss of earnings due to injury or illness such as Covid, according to research from health and protection insurer The Exeter. The...