Wellbeing & Mental Health

Three in five UK business leaders believe employers now have more responsibility for their employees’ mental and physical health beyond the workplace, a major piece of research suggests. The same number (63%)...

Specialist health and wellbeing intermediary and consultancy PES is ramping up its ambitious plans with the appointment of Stuart Gray, founder and chairman of Portus Consulting, as non-executive chairman. Health & Protection’s...

General Insurance broker David Roberts & Partners (DR&P) has joined group risk industry body GRiD. Well-established in the business and personal insurance space, the broker is strengthening and expanding its healthcare and...

HCB, the Oxfordshire-based employee health management and occupational health specialist, has launched a new “calendar service” designed to help employers maintain workforce health with a rolling programme of support, documentation and hands...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH), the Northamptonshire-based specialist health insurance and protection broker, has acquired Sussex-based broker SJA International. The deal is the first PCH has completed since it became part of Global...

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...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is to launch a mental health e-learning module for advisers and frontline staff with the charity Rightsteps in early 2021. The module is being designed to...

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 weekly cost of residential long-term care in Islington, North London, is £1,488 – and £621 in Blaenau Gwent, Wales. The figures have emerged as part of Legal & General research which...