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UK national standards body the BSI has issued a new workplace standard aimed at helping organisations support employees experiencing menopause or menstruation and better enable them to retain experienced and talented people...

Funds Europe, the leading publication for Europe’s institutional investment professionals, has been sold by Punter Southall Group to Health & Protection parent Definite Article Media Limited. The acquisition, which takes place with...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is committing further funds to keep its free mental health e-learning course open for an another year to complete its goal of training 5,000 adviser and...

YuLife has been certified as a B Corporation (B Corp), joining a group of companies who are aiming to reinvent business by pursuing purpose as well as profit. YuLife has been certified...

Medicash has renewed its partnership with skin cancer screening app SkinVision. Medicash initially introduced the SkinVision app in June 2020 as an added benefit to its corporate policyholders, subsequently extending it to...

Spire Healthcare has appointed Professor Lisa Grant as group clinical director and chief nurse. Over a 25-year career with the NHS, Grant was a chief operating officer in large acute NHS trusts...

Abrdn has sold all of its shares in Indian life insurer HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange the global investment firm revealed subsidiary Abrdn (Mauritius...

Bupa has agreed a strategic partnership with Ascenti to offer face-to-face physiotherapy appointments across the UK. Bupa customers including business clients will be offered access to Ascenti's network of physiotherapists at more...

Royal London paid out £631m in protection claims in 2022 approving 99.4% of all claims and paying benefits to almost 80,000 customers and their families. This compares with the previous year's data...

Scottish Widows paid out a total of £199m in protection claims last year, down from £207.9m in 2021. More than 98% of all protection claims were paid out to a total of...