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Bupa is launching a guided care add-on option to its consumer Bupa By You and Bupa Fundamental products offering access to the insurer’s open referral network of specialists. Once customers have an...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...

Advisers should choose working smarter over working harder and stop making excuses for not talking about protection with customers. This is according to industry veteran Richard Kateley, who recently retired after three...

The merger of Aon and Willis Towers Watson has been thrown into doubt as the sale of the pair's US health benefits businesses has proven "wholly insufficient" to allay the US Department...

Homeworking is increasing loneliness among young people and causing them to feel cut off from colleagues, according to the LifeSearch Health, Wealth and Happiness Index. The research, compiled with the Centre for...

Research by insurer MetLife has found that cost is the biggest deterrent to people taking financial advice. The firm found that the majority of people who had bought a home or were...

Workplace health and wellbeing programmes around the world must recognise and support the needs of people who have been hardest hit by the pandemic, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)...

Effective employer wellbeing strategies to tackle the threat posed by long Covid need to be underpinned by a solid framework of agencies including insurers and wellbeing providers. And advisers muct be at...

At a time when employees are largely continuing to work remotely, it is especially vital that businesses have a plan in place to support their wellbeing and alleviate stresses associated with the...

Wellbeing will remain atop the corporate agenda for many years as the world has “only seen the tip of the iceberg” from the Covid-19 pandemic. Health and wellbeing benefits are also likely...