Mental Health

The provider says it has seen a doubling in business customer claims for mental health treatment in the last decade and says its new Bupa Business Mental Health Advantage is designed to enable...

Unum’s employee assistance programme (EAP), provided by LifeWorks, received 12,610 calls in 2017, 70 per cent of which related to mental health issues. A further 14 per cent of callers had legal...

While the UK’s productivity gap is a mammoth problem, the range of tools the group risk industry brings to employers to help tackle it is wide and varied. The tools that insurers...

Canada Life is rolling out a deeper mental health proposition with RedArc following a trial that indicates absences can be significantly reduced with more intensive interventions. Following an eight-month project investigating the...

Investing in supporting mental health at work is good for business and productivity, helping to cut the £99bn it costs the UK economy each year, a review commissioned by the Prime Minister...

Younger women are significantly more likely to access group income protection for mental health issues than men, with a third of women claiming earning under £20,000, Unum’s claim statistics show. The figures...

TV presenter Gabby Logan, and former Premier League and Welsh international footballer Robbie Savage are fronting a Legal & General campaign targeting the stigma surrounding mental health in the workplace. The campaign,...

A fifth of UK workers would be more likely to go into work with a mental illness than a physical one and just 20 per cent would take time off for a...

The Prime Minister’s review of mental health needs to address the devastating impact preventable stress is having on workers says BHSF Employee Benefits managing director Brian Hall The Prime Minister is focusing...

The Prime Minister has ordered a review of mental health in the workplace looking at ways employers can support employees with mental health issues. In a speech to the Charity Commission this...