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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...

Zurich has appointed Nick Erskine to the newly created role of director of distribution. Erskine (pictured) joins from AIG where he spent six and a half years, most recently as head of...

Stuart Scullion stepped down as executive chairman of the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) just last month after six years at the head of the organisation. Scullion (pictured) will continue...

More than half of people worry their workplace will not have routine Covid testing upon their return to the office. This is according to research from Canada Life which shows 58% of...