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Aviva is to give all its 16,000 UK employees an extra day off this year, specifically to help with their wellbeing. The move is part of a range of ‘winter wellbeing’ events...

By December this year more than nine million Britons had to borrow more than they normally do while at the same time credit card balances actually fell by 14.7%, official figures show....

Canada Life is to extend the range of support services it offers to group income protection customers, following a initial roll-out to SME members last year. WeCare is a range of virtual...

The highest number of peacetime excess deaths in Scotland since 1891 has just been recorded. The National Records of Scotland (NRS) said there were 6,324 excess deaths last year, 11% higher than...

There was more good news for Britain’s businesses and their health and protection advisers this week when latest research showed that the City’s recruitment market is defying widespread predictions of prolonged downturn....

Protection and private medical insurance medical advisers looking to support SME businesses and grow the overall health benefits market – and in turn UK plc – have seen some potential avenues of...

A new suite of toolkits developed in collaboration with Public Health England (PHE) has been launched by an industry body in a bid to support employers’ efforts to improve the health and...

Mercer announced today the appointment of Ashok Gupta as chair of its UK board. Gupta will also chair the organisation’s Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee. Gupta succeeds Jane Barker, CBE, who...

One in five people in Britain say that the wider societal and financial impact of the pandemic has encouraged them to take better care of their health and lifestyle, research shows. A...

Nuffield Health, the independent sector hospital and health provider, has launched a series of free ‘emotional wellbeing’ classes. The move follows a YouGov poll, commissioned by Nuffield, which shows over half (52%)...