Wellbeing & Mental Health

The government is to invest £3.6m as part of a new health strategy aimed at tackling the physical and mental health challenges faced by men and boys. It aims to reduce inequalities...

Cignpost Group has appointed Dr Anushka Patchava as chief clinical and innovation officer. Dr Patchava (pictured) joins the firm’s senior leadership team and operational board to oversee clinical strategy and to support...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not the answer to solving loneliness which is becoming an increasingly important factor in physical and mental health. Speaking at the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII)...

More than a quarter (27%) of SMEs have no wellbeing budget at all with the situation being even worse for micro businesses. Furthermore, 58% of SMEs agreed that current taxation policies actively...

Eleven major insurers, representatives and healthcare providers are among more than 60 employers joining forces with the government to help tackle labour market inactivity. The organisations will be part of the initial...

The government has committed to developing a voluntary certified workplace health provision standard by 2029.  This was one of the key elements of the new model to manage and reduce sickness absence...

The Keep Britain Working Review has urged the exploration of pooling mechanisms to help make investing in the workplace health provision (WHP) affordable for SMEs. It likened the process as similar to...

Adopting an overhauled employer-led shared responsibility approach to employee health at work and cutting sickness absence could save up to £18bn a year when fully running, according to the Keep Britain Working...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has identified a 23% increase in the number of people who used insurer-provided health services in 2023, such as virtual GPs, physiotherapy services and mental health...

Every two seconds, someone under the age of 70 dies from a chronic illness, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates. That’s nearly 17 million lives lost prematurely each year, lives cut short...