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The UK may be home to twice the number of long Covid sufferers than first feared, with research suggesting the figure could be as high as two million. The Imperial College London-led...

Zurich is revamping its recruitment practices as new data indicates a slight widening of its ethnicity pay gap. Releasing its UK ethnicity pay gap data for 2021, the insurer revealed a mean...

Vitality has overhauled its private medical insurance (PMI) offering including the creation of a panel of consultants which policyholders will be rewarded for using. The insurer said the panel consists of thousands...

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has appointed Ying Yu as head of sustainability. Yu was most recently senior vice president at property management firm Prologis where she was responsible for the global...

Amazon Canada has launched My Wellbeing, an online wellbeing platform offering staff access to a range of physical, mental, social and financial care providers. The online retailer has been widely criticised throughout...

British people are putting in more overtime while working from home, spending less time sleeping, and neglecting their physical health, according to research. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) (below)...

Insurers are seeing an increase in invoices as hospitals, specialists and dentists in the Far East try to recoup lost income during the Covid pandemic. This is according to Alistair Dickman, head...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) is to launch Income Protection Awareness Week - an awareness campaign supported by events running from the 20 – 24 September. The campaign is aimed at...

US health insurance solutions provider ArmadaCare has appointed Mike Ross (pictured) as chief revenue officer (CRO). Ross, who was most recently head of carrier relations at Health IQ, will be responsible for...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has revealed that only 60% of the dentists which left the NHS in 2020 have been replaced. And it also noted that it has...