Obesity and diabetes could soon overtake cancer as the next major cost driver for international private medical insurance (IPMI), according to new data from Bupa Global. Bupa Global’s latest Healthcare Insights Report...
Hybrid working, digital overload and fragmented teams will make employee engagement harder in future, according to new research from Towergate Employee Benefits. The employee benefits consultancy found that one in three employers...
Simplyhealth and the CIPD have found that a quarter of workplaces report stress as a cause of short-term absence. According to the 24th Health and wellbeing at work report, 64 per cent...
Almost six in ten employers say their health and wellbeing strategies are helping them deliver on the 'social' element of their ESG policies, according to new research from Grid. According to Grid, over...
Employee sickness is costing small businesses in the UK £29bn a year, due to productivity drops, according to new research. The survey, by insurers Unum, found that health and wellbeing remained “chronically...
November 5th saw the publication of the Mayfield report on how to ‘Keep Britain Working’ – lighting the touchpaper for fundamental changes to workplace health. It makes clear the wider societal impacts...
The Government will set up a three-year vanguard project with employers and health providers, aimed at creating a new “healthy work standard”, and reduce employee absenteeism, following recommendations made in the Keep...
With the NHS struggling to provide fertility services, more companies are offering support such as IVF, fertility preservation as well as egg and sperm freezing as part of their wider employee benefit...
More than seven out of 10 medical insurance claims are not for 'routine' treatment according to new claims data from VitalityHealth Its data shows 70 per cent of its health calcium were...
Workplace financial wellbeing used to be a monthly payslip and a half-day workshop on retirement for those approaching pension age. But, today, the link between money and other areas of employee wellbeing...
