One of the most significant consequences of the Covid-crisis could be an epidemic of mental health problems, that is unlikely to be relieved by a vaccine in the near future. This was...
The outlook for the group risk and healthcare industries is buoyant for 2021, despite the ongoing challenges presented by the Covid pandemic. Delegates at Corporate Adviser’s Workplace Protection and Wellbeing Conference retained...
The Government’s response to the ‘Health is everyone’s business’ consultation paper is expected shortly, and should contain proposals to reform statutory sick pay according the Jennifer Heigham, head of delivery of the...
The Covid pandemic is likely to increase the cost of group income protection policies for employers due to rising cases of mental ill-health and potential problems with long covid. This was the...
Support services have become pretty much a hygiene factor within the UK protection industry, with the majority of providers now offering customers some form of additional service in the health and wellbeing...
In my last column I referenced the lack of transparency in the group risk market over claim statistics. New evidence demonstrates dramatically how poorly the UK group income protection sector compares to...
There has been a surge in demand for digital physiotherapy bookings since the start of lockdown according to employee benefits provider Unum. Unum says over 1,000 bookings have been made for this...
With dental and optical the top two benefits on healthcare cash plans, the closure of these services during lockdown presented a challenge to the sector. But, by being forced to find other ways...
The Covid crisis has underlined how important it is for employers, insurers and wellbeing providers to provide effective services to support employees’ mental health. In recent years campaigns run by charities such as...
Changing the language used to describe pensions could significantly boost employee engagement with retirement savings, according to new research. The survey, by Invesco, Nest Insight and maslansky + partners identified a number...
