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Business for Health, a business-led coalition working with major employers including Legal and General and Axa Health, is calling for health and wellbeing to be more closely aligned to companies' environmental, social...

Six in 10 financial services workers think their employer could do more to improve workplace mental health and wellbeing, according to research by Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England. It found 83%...

Helen Crook, head of clinical services at HCB, speaks to Health & Protection about putting the varied skills she has picked up over her career to use, why she takes inspiration from...

More than 7,000 people have been added to the number of people who who are economically inactive due to long term sickness in the UK in the past month. Last month data...

The number of people suffering with long Covid symptoms for at least two years has soared past three quarters of a million - rising 11% since the start of the year, according...

Unum UK witnessed increased demand for its remote GPs service during the winter as NHS services continued to be stretched, particularly out-of-hours. As of February 2023, the provider said more than a...

LifeSearch’s employee benefits (EB) arm has agreed a partnership with WorkLife by OpenMoney platform. The intermediary will offer corporate clients access to benefits supporting a wide range of their employees’ financial, mental...

Seven in 10 large companies say they find it difficult to ensure communication of health and wellbeing support is always relevant to employees, according to research from Towergate Health & Protection. The...

Cost pressures on SMEs and the economic environment are driving business worries for workplace protection advisers, but the growing interest of health and wellbeing is countering these concerns. More than half (55%)...

Spiralling inflation and energy costs have combined to create a cost of living crisis in which some people have been left with a choice between eating and heating. As a result, some...