Mental Health

The group risk industry paid a record £1.76bn amount in claims during 2019. New data published by Group Risk Development (Grid) showed that the total claims paid in 2019 rose by £75m...

Aviva has reported a tenfold increase in the number of calls to helplines offered as part of an Employee Assistance Programme. Speaking at a Corporate Adviser virtual round table on group risks'...

Flexible working and work-life balance initiatives are the most popular ways to support employees’ emotional wellbeing according to research amongst HR decision makers undertaken on behalf of Group Risk Development (Grid). Of the 88...

Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have been developing at such a pace that one could be forgiven for assuming that their race has already been run. After all, according to Institute for Employment Studies...

With stigmas around mental health evaporating, more employees feel comfortable talking about their own problems in the workplace. While this is a major step forward, there’s still plenty of uncertainty around how...

MetLife is introducing an employee assistance programme (EAP) for its SME proposition to target smaller employers’ need to improve their employees’ wellbeing.  The EAP, available to members of SME group life schemes...

In total more two-fifths (43 per cent) of businesses had employees absent for at least four weeks due to ill-health over the last two years, according to research from the British Chambers...

Just one in five employers have met new standards on mental health, set out in a key government review. In October 2017 the Stevenson/Farmer report recommended six core standards to improve workplace...

Take-up of support services offered by group risk providers has historically been very low, meaning that both employers and employees are missing out on many of these benefits these insurance products can...

Healthtech and digital medicine are increasingly been pushed as amongst the most effective ways to manage workplace wellbeing, health, absence and engagement. Group risk providers are starting to adopt new digital solutions...