Mental Health

Younger adults are the highest users of mental health support services and account for almost double the usage of the next largest group, according to figures from RedArc. Meanwhile, support for mental...

Employers are facing a multitude of challenges across their businesses today, including rising health-related absences. In 2025, the Labour Force Survey estimated 148.8 million working days were lost because of sickness or...

Andy Burnham appeared to give his backing to the Milburn Review by using his first speech as prime minister to promise more mental health support for young people. Outside Downing Street earlier...

Alan Milburn’s action plan on youth labour market inactivity is set to be published in September and has the backing of the likely successor to the prime minister. This is according to...

Many organisations now recognise the importance of investing in workplace mental health. But there’s still a gap between how leaders view their team's mental health, and how employees experience it.   Unfortunately, leaders...

Aon has launched Activate, a data-led and scalable total rewards and employee benefits platform. Enhanced by AI-powered tools, Activate unifies benefits, wellbeing, pensions and rewards into a single digital platform aiming to...

Mental health and menopause support are the most popular areas for organisations to prioritising for new staff wellbeing investment over the next 12 to 18 months, while premium inflation is hitting private...

Today is the final day for advisers to enter The UK Health & Protection Awards 2026. Entries can be submitted on the Awards website. Health & Protection would also like to thank...

The government-backed Keep Britain Working Review has set out an ambitious seven-year framework to tackle economic inactivity linked to ill health. Aviva Health’s medical and sustainability director Dr Subashini M outlines the...

Employee ill health, especially mental ill health, is now central to the national conversation about work. The government’s Keep Britain Working review warns of a “quiet but urgent” crisis: more than one...