Scottish Widows and other financial service companies have joined a new business initiative designed to provide better support for consumers with a range of communications difficulties. As a result of this initiative...
Virtual GP provider Medical Solutions is to rebrand its business as HealthHero, and will offer additional clinical and digital services. This will include mental health, musculoskeletal, counselling and other specialist clinical services,...
The coronavirus pandemic will have a lasting impact on the cost and design of employer-provided health benefits for years to come, according to new research. Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) says medical costs...
Almost two thirds of workers across the UK and Europe feel their work-related stress levels have increased compared with pre-pandemic levels, with 81 per cent of this group describing themselves as having...
Whether furloughed, facing redundancy or working from home, Covid-19 has had a lasting effect on many employees’ financial health and wellbeing. Given the links between financial, physical and mental health, employers have a...
Whilst the pandemic put significant pressure on our NHS, it coped the best it could. Non-urgent non-COVID- 19-related services were deprioritised to ensure that healthcare resources were pointed at the greatest public...
One of the biggest challenges in selling insurance products is that they are effectively intangible. They promise that if something happens, at a later date, the insurer will be there to pay...
Women working overseas need to have more support from their employers on a range of health issues. Towergate Health & Protection has highlighted this issue and called for employers to do more...
Critical illness claims for cancer are expected to soar in 2021 after a 45 per cent fall in claims during lockdown in April 2020. Protection provider LV= says a fall in diagnoses...
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