Absence/Productivity

This is the last day to vote in the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe...

There are eight days left to vote in the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe...

Axa Health has relaunched its employee assistance programme (EAP) and workplace wellbeing services through Spectrum.Life, replacing its previous in-house service with an affiliate network. The insurer also told Health & Protection that...

The NHS waiting list continued to decline, falling to 7.40 million people in January 2025, according to the latest data from NHS England. The latest data revealed 7,402,148 people were on the...

Workplace absences connected to employees taking time off to care for a cancer-stricken loved one could cost UK employers an estimated £8.5bn this year due to an increase in cases. This is...

The Labour Government's has confirmed £1bn of employment support measures aimed at helping disabled and long-term sick people back into work. The details were included in the Spring Statement documents. Last week,...

Voting for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025 is now open. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been outstanding...

Government's impending national insurance contributions (NICs) increase is causing employers to increasingly discard group income protection cover in order to retain the immediate benefit to the workforce provided by group private medical...

Providing access to a GP and musculoskeletal and mental health benefits could wipe out 80% of the UK's productivity crisis and save the exchequer billions of pounds a year. This is according...

It has been positive to see an overall increased awareness of the benefits of income protection (IP), with an upward trend in sales in recent years. However, I have been reflecting on...