Healthcare

Just over 9.2m people are economically inactive in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics, of which 2.8m are unable to work due to long-term sickness. Left unchecked, the Institute...

L&G Group Protection has seen a 79 per cent increase in usage of its digital health services over the past year.  This figure — contained its third chief medical officer report —...

Nearly 30 per cent of employees admit to considering or actually calling in sick when healthy, according to MetLife UK's research. The survey emphasises the reasons why workers take sick days as...

Unum UK's health and wellbeing app, Help@hand, has seen strong demand for nutrition support, especially from women. Help@hand’s nutrition service has delivered 6,225 consultations of which 70 per cent were booked by women...

Protecting your employees' health and wellbeing at work is crucial. Since adults spend about one-third of their waking hours at work, the workplace can be a prime spot to develop and maintain healthy...

SPONSORED CONTENT Remember a time where workplace ‘health insurance’ just meant being covered for visits to hospital? It may sound foreign to people starting their careers now, in a world where attitudes...

Simplyhealth has appointed experienced board director Rita Clifton CBE as its new chair, succeeding Mike Hall, who has been a member of the Board since 2011. Clifton is the deputy chair of...

 PIB Employee Benefits has created a new executive team that sees Joanne Neary promoted to client services director and Sarah Harris named operations director. The new executive team will report directly to...

Group risk products now offer a range of added-value features that are increasingly being used by policyholders. Many are virtual healthcare services, initially introduced during the Covid lockdown, but now aimed at...

It has been another busy year for the group risk, health insurance and wellbeing sectors, particularly with renewed focus on productivity issues caused by long-term ill-health in the workplace. The new Labour...