Healthcare

Howden Broking Group has bought a 60 per cent stake in Spanish flex provider Compensa, expanding its footprint in both Spain and Mexico. The business is also known as a specialist in...

Benefits professionals have welcomed today’s announcement by Chancellor Rishi Sunak of a package of initiatives to help protect and create jobs, and are emphasising the importance of motivated employees to fuelling the...

Bupa Health Clinics have launched a new suite of services for corporate customers, which include widespread antibody and antigen tests. These new servcies are designed to help businesses support employees returning to...

One in three employers don’t offer support to help long-term absent employees return to work, according to new research. Group Risk Development (Grid) says that 31 per cent of employers do not...

Aegon is the latest insurer to report a significant drop in critical illness claims during the coronavirus lockdown.  The insurer said that 37 per cent fewer policyholders claimed on CI policies in...

Cash plan provider SimplyHealth is making a subsidised coronavirus antibody test available to its corporate and retail customers. This test will be available from July 13. SimplyHealth says it is heavily subsidising...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH) has been bought by GRP, the UK’s second largest independent insurance intermediary, as it looks to grow its healthcare offering. The deal is GRP’s first acquisition Searchlight Capital...

Many employers are looking to provide private Covid-19 testing for staff as part of their strategy for re-opening post lockdown. A number of private medical companies currently selling both antigen and antibody tests...

In 2019 there were around 500,000 work-related MSK injuries, leading to 6.9m working days lost and costing businesses £15bn. With many of these injuries said to be caused by employees adopting awkward...

Group income protection is the fastest growing product line in group risk, increasing the number of employees covered by 7 per cent in 2019 to over 2.6 million employees, according to the...