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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tailored apps, webinars, healthy sleep workshops and desk exercise can contribute to effectively tackling the surging numbers of musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries due to homeworking. Research by Ascenti found half of home workers...