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Grid calls on DWP to include workplace benefits in employer support service
Group Risk Development (Grid) has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to include services available through workplace health and risk benefits in its new Support for Employee Health and...
Read moreWhy PMI has become a ‘have to have’ benefit for employers – analysis
At the start of the year, employers across the country may have hoped that 2022 would have offered some respite after two years wrestling with a pandemic which forced staff to turn...
Read moreNeurodiversity in the workplace: what employers can do to support employees – Campbell
Over 15% of the UK public are estimated to be neurodivergent, either diagnosed with conditions such as dyspraxia, ADHD, dyslexia or autism, or simply viewing the world in a different way to...
Read moreHealth & Protection publishes first Individual PMI market report
Health & Protection is launching its first UK private medical insurance (PMI) report analysing the extent of the market. The report is available to download for free by advisers, intermediaries and brokers...
Read moreEmployee productivity slumps by two weeks despite rising health support – Vitality
UK firms have lost a further two working weeks per employee despite a concerted effort to increase the range of health and wellbeing benefits offered to staff, according to research from Vitality....
Read moreAviva adds quartet of PMI benefits to support diversity
Aviva has introduced four private medical insurance benefit options for large corporate clients aimed at helping employees bring their true selves to work. The benefit options include an enhanced gender identity benefit,...
Read moreInsurers must support men taking paternity leave and doing school run – James
The insurance sector needs to challenge social expectations which dictate that men are less likely to take-up paternity leave or take responsibility for the school run. This is according to Penny James,...
Read moreSpiralling mental ill health and MSK cases drive workplace absence – HSE
There were more than 1.8 million work-related ill health cases in 2021/22, with 30.8 million working days lost in 2021/22, according to the Health and Safety Executive. The data showed the top...
Read moreIntroducing… Jason Chidwick, HCML
Jason Chidwick, specialist rehabilitation case manager and amputee clinical lead at HCML, speaks to Health & Protection about leaving the world of professional football, helping a client who doctors told would never...
Read moreLV= pays more than £20m in CI claims in 2022
LV= paid out more than £20m in critical illness (CI) claims between January and September 2022. The mutual revealed more than 258 people were supported after they received a life-changing diagnosis, including...
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