Healthcare

The number of sick days taken by UK workers last year increased and is now at the highest level for a decade   - despite more than half of employers now deploying...

Phoenix Group is now offering a ‘midlife MOT’ to all employees within 10 years of retirement.  This health and wealth check — which has been promoted by the Department of Work and...

Aviva has bought AIG Life for £460m as it looks to further expand its footprint in the UK protection market.  As a result of this deal Aviva will acquire 1.4m group protection...

SPONSORED CONTENT There’s no getting away from the fact that the NHS is facing some tough challenges, with long patient waiting times and increased staff vacancies, so does the protection industry have...

Money raised from insurance premium tax rose by 11 per cent over the past year, giving the government record revenues of £7.34bn from this tax.  Analysis by OAC, part of the Broadstone...

Healix has partnered with Champion Health to provide a new platform for employers, that it is describing as a ‘Netflix for wellbeing’ . This platform assesses employees’ individual health needs and personalises...

Employers are increasingly looking to provide dental cover as part of their workplace benefits as new statistics show almost 27m adults have not visited a dentist for over two years.  NHS England’s...

SPONSORED CONTENT Tracey Funnell, business manager for Legal & General Retail Retirement Income’s Care Service, says that use of Care Concierge, included as part of Legal & General’s Group Income Protection (GIP)...

Demand continues to grow for health insurance as employees look to their organisations to help them access healthcare post-pandemic. But, with the breadth and cost of treatment increasing, and benefits budgets under...

An additional 26,000 individuals have been classified as economically inactive due to prolonged illness over the last three months, according to recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The most...