Group Risk

Towergate Health & Protection has expanded its group risk team with the appointment of two new consultants. Rob Joyce joined at the end of March, with Savas Kilicer joining at the end...

Maxis GBN has partnered with MindCo Health to offer clients new virtual programmes designed to stop smoking and ease stress. Californian-based MindCo Heath is a digital health company specialising in VR programmes...

Aegon has launched a new online protection dashboard for advisers. This platform brings together all of Aegon’s protection applications, allowing advisers to complete and submit applications online, track these in real-time and...

Mental health has been having an increasing impact on the workplace for a number of years. In fact, it has now become the biggest reason for workplace absence.  The NHS is seeing...

Broadstone has joined Grid, the industry body for group risk, to keep up to date with industry developments as the company grows. Broadstone says Grid's training and platform, which allows members to...

SPONSORED CONTENT Our four-step guide to new pension consolidation rules From 31 December 2021, new regulations come into force which require DC schemes to carry out extended value-for money assessments and report back on whether consolidation...

The so-called ‘Davina effect’ is likely to create increase demand for employee menopause support in the workplace, as research shows symptoms frequently affect work. Awareness about the menopause and how its symptoms...

Businesses are being warned that many employee benefits packages are too inflexible when it comes to health and wellbeing support.  RedArc, the nurse-led wellbeing provider, said that many employers are now doing...

Changes to the IR35 rules in April 2021 have clearly resulted in some self-employed workers joining company payrolls. But overall, the numbers of contractors, freelancers and other ‘non-traditional workers’ have been skyrocketing....

Presenteeism - the pressure employees feel to be ‘present’ at all times while working - is pervasive within UK workplaces. Research we undertook after the end of lockdown revealed that 35 per...