Canada Life extends support services to SME customers
Canada Life has launched a range of health and wellbeing support services, which will be available to all those using its group insurance platform. These services, which will be offered at no...
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250,000 NHS staff only have £60,000 life cover
A quarter of a million NHS staff who opted out of its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme only have life cover of £60,000 in the event of Covid-related death, and some non-front...
‘Overlooked’ Grid sets up lobbying committee
Grid is forming a new Workplace Public Policy Committee with the aim of promoting workplace health and wellbeing matters to government. The committee has been set up in response to the group risk sector...
Unum gives free access to wellbeing app for small firm customers
Unum is giving free access to its digital Help@hand health and wellbeing service during Coronavirus to firms with less than 100 employees. Between 1st May and 31st July, 2020 small firms that have a...
Analysis: Cutting through the wellbeing waffle
Tackling the epidemic of non-communicable chronic diseases has been a key aim for wellbeing programmes for many years. Now we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, other health and wellbeing interventions...
Pi Partnership appoints new chairman
Pi Partnership has appointed John Cooper to its board, as the non-executive chair. Cooper has held a number of senior roles in the industry, as chief operating officer at Alexander Forbes and chief...
Mercer launches financial wellbeing hub to address Covid crisis
Mercer has launched a financial wellbeing resources hub to help employers, and their employees during the the Covid crisis. This site will provide practical information for employers and includes an associated site...
Glenn Thomas: Building a benefits business
Glenn Thomas, managing director of Howden Employee Benefits and Wellbeing has seen both sides of the acquisition experience in his quarter century in the employee benefits consultancy sector. As one of the...
Johnson Fleming bought by US benefits broking giant
US insurance broker and employee benefits consulting giant NFP has bought Johnson Fleming, the Bromsgrove-based benefits adviser. In the US NFP specialises in corporate benefits, property and casualty, retirement and individual solutions...
One in three GP appointments missed due to ‘work pressures’
Prior to the Covid pandemic, almost one in three medical appointments have been missed due to work pressures - and this is having significant effect on productivity, according to new research. Research...
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