Wellbeing & Mental Health

Legal & General Group Protection has launched a Be Well helpline as part of its Be Well Hub for employers and intermediaries. The helpline provides HR and line managers with early intervention...

Mercer Marsh Benefits has appointed Chris Bailey as UK & Ireland region leader and managing director. Bailey (pictured) succeeds Tony Wood, who moves to the role of regional leader and managing director...

Extending suicide prevention training to client facing staff resulted in a life saving intervention for a fraud analyst at the Bank of Ireland (BoI), the lender revealed. Speaking on the first day...

Insurance and benefits marketplace Collective Benefits has received a US$10m investment from Prosus Ventures, the venture investing arm of Prosus. Collective Benefits offers insurance and benefits for independent workers across sectors. This...

US broker and risk management firm Risk Strategies has acquired employee benefits insurance agency Better Business Planning. Terms of the deal were not announced. Based in Itasca, Illinois, Better Business Planning specialises...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) saw it’s workplace benefits spend including healthcare and protection cover soar by almost £1m in the last year. In its annual report the regulator said its benefits...

Four in 10 Britons say they have no financial security if they were to find themselves unable to work due to illness, according to research by Cigna Europe. The survey also showed...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated two Staffordshire mental health hospitals as inadequate for the second time in six months. The CQC inspected John Munroe Hospital, a 57-bed hospital for men...

Employee assistance programme (EAP) and wellbeing provider Spectrum.Life has launched Total Mental Health. The service provides users with continuous mental health and wellbeing support, including unlimited on-demand access to a personal mental...

The reduction or removal of insurance premium tax (IPT) from health insurance products and tax breaks for employers supporting staff are top of advisers' wish list ahead of the Budget today. Reports...