Wellbeing & Mental Health
Health Summit: Diversity can enhance firms’ reputation, retention and bottom line
Fostering diverse workforces is not just a nice thing to do as it can have a significant impact on an advice firm's reputation and employee retention rates improving its bottom line, with...
Read moreLegal & General adds online physio and wellbeing services to GIP
Legal & General Group Protection has added a range of on demand services to its group income protection (GIP) Virtual Clinic for members and their families. These services include online physiotherapy from...
Read morePhoto gallery: Health Summit in pictures
Health & Protection's inaugural Health Summit took place last week at Tylney Hall in Hampshire. The exclusive two-day event saw advisers and intermediaries working in the private medical insurance (PMI) and healthcare...
Read moreStress Awareness Month Business Toolkit – Bupa
Stress is one of the most common causes of long-term work absence in the UK. This April, encourage your clients to make stress management a key business priority with our toolkit....
Read moreEmbracing a neurodiverse workforce requires perspective shift – Tanner
There is a growing awareness of the benefits a neurodiverse workforce can bring to organisations. The competitive edge it can offer has been well documented, with Siemens reporting a 50% increase in...
Read moreHealth Summit: Insurers should examine claims and complaints data to avoid excluding certain groups – Chakravorty
Private medical insurers have been urged to think about how the way their products are designed, sold and promoted may inadvertently discriminate against certain groups of people. Chico Chakravorty, founder of Doing...
Read moreHealth Summit: Advisers should brace for commission to be abolished – Middleton
The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) executive chairman David Middleton has warned commissions on private medical insurance cover are likely to be abolished in future. The issue of signifcantly higher...
Read moreBudget 2023: Hunt ignores calls for tax relief on health insurance
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has ignored calls from across the sector to offer tax cuts or relief for those using some form of private health insurance or provision. NHS waiting lists have continued...
Read moreBudget 2023: Hunt invests £400m to scale up MSK hubs and mental health access
Government has committed to scaling up community musculoskeletal (MSK) hubs in England to enable people to access treatment and provide free access to digital support tools hosted on the NHS website and...
Read moreLong-term sick numbers double in a year to 25 times pre-pandemic level
The number of people who are economically inactive due to long term sickness in the UK has more than doubled in the past year and is now 25 times higher than before...
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