Healthcare

Despite the pandemic, the UK sickness absence rate has fallen to 1.8 per cent in 2020, the lowest recorded level since the data time series began in 1995, according to figures from...

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought home to employers and employees the true value of group risk insurance, both in terms of the core insurance and associated health and wellbeing benefits. For many years...

Sponsored content The past year has been one of the most challenging we’ve experienced in our personal and professional lifetimes. With 50 per cent of people in the UK re porting not...

Sponsored content Aviva’s research revealed that more employees are soldiering on when they’re unwell as they work from home during the pandemic.  Although there are competing definitions of presenteeism, it’s broadly accepted that...

Sponsored content The value of group protection hasn’t changed. The need for people to protect their life, their ability to earn an income and to keep a roof over their heads remains....

Traditionally group protection and its individually-advised counterpart have been worlds apart, with corporate plans having entirely different underwriting processes and pricing to retail cover. But as employers look to get ‘more for...

In March 2020, as independent hospitals made their capacity available to the NHS to fight Covid-19 and private treatment was postponed, the future of group medical insurance seemed very uncertain. But, while 2021...

Almost half (44 per cent) of advisers believe resolving customer problems has become harder while home working, while just 12 per cent of insurers share that view, according to research from The...

The march of new technology is driving both innovation and disruption across many areas of the economy, but to date the workplace protection sector has remained largely insulated from these changes. Yet...

Causation is an elusive event in almost any walk of life. Being able to demonstrate that the actions we take have an impact on our desired outcome is the holy grail of...