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Handl brings mental health service Limbic to private healthcare
Handl Group has signed an exclusive deal to provide Limbic's psychological therapy service as a bespoke offering for the business-to-business market. The partnership means the AI-based mental healthcare services platform will be...
Read moreHealth and financial services staff report worst work-life balance – LifeSearch
Healthcare and financial services workers are among those most likely to believe they do not have a good work-life balance, according to a study from LifeSearch. More than a third of healthcare...
Read moreReliance Global Group acquires JP Kush and Associates
Insurance technology firm Reliance Global Group has acquired health insurance agency JP Kush and Associates. It joins the seven broker firms already aquired by the technology business. Following the acquisition, JP Kush...
Read moreIPID becoming redundant as clients crushed under regulatory literature – Walters
Since the Insurance Distribution Directive came into effect in October 2018, it has been necessary to provide retail customers with a snappily titled 'Insurance Product Information Document' or 'IPID'. This was a...
Read moreLawyer warns about reasonable adjustments for long Covid sufferers
A lawyer is warning employers to focus on what reasonable adjustments they can make for returning workers with long Covid as people are likely to be protected under disability discrimination law. Philip...
Read moreEmployers urged to help workers whose social networks have disappeared – analysis
Employers have been urged to help workers whose social networks have disappeared due to lockdown re-engage with their friends and families as new research draws a clear link between loneliness and increased...
Read moreCQC finds clinical homecare provider inadequate and places in special measures
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated a Staffordshire-based clinical homecare provider as inadequate and placed it in special measures. This morning the CQC revealed Burton-on-Trent-based Healthcare at Home (HaH) has been...
Read moreRoyal Marsden and Cromwell Hospital open new facilities
The Cromwell Hospital has opened a paediatric sports medicine clinic which supports children and adolescents with injuries sustained while playing sport. Based in Kensington, the Children and Adolescent Sports Medicine clinic is...
Read moreInsurers pay out record £6.2bn for bereavement, ill health and injury
Insurers paid out £6.2bn in life insurance, income protection, and critical illness claims in 2020, equivalent to £17m a day, according to figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Group...
Read moreFCA plans tighter consumer protection rules to drive behaviour and culture shift
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is planning to introduce fresh demands on advisers and intermediaries to ensure they are operating in the customer’s best interests at all times. The rules will be...
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