Written by Adrian Matthews, Head of Employee Benefits at MetLife UK An estimated nine in ten UK adults have experienced high or extreme stress in the last year with one in five needing to take time off work due to poor mental health. While it’s common for people to...
Mental Health Awareness
TPT Retirement Solutions’ Philip Smith discusses how helping employees understand their pensions is key to improving employees’ mental health
By Philip Smith, Director of DC at TPT Retirement Solutions Helping employees understand their pensions and plan early for their later life is key to improving employees’ mental health. Recent research by TPT shows that almost half (49%) of working people aged...
From benefits to holistic strategies – How employers can approach mental health wellbeingÂ
Written by Rus Waygood, sales manager, group protection at Canada Life With all that’s happened over the past few years – from the outbreak of a global pandemic, to a cost-of-living crisis and on-going geopolitical instability in Ukraine and the Middle East – it’s...
Mental health support for children consistently higher than other conditions over five years
Analysis of data over the past five years shows that mental health is the area in which RedArc has provided the most support for children. Not only has this been the health concern with consistently the most child referrals over the past five years, but 30% of new...
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How listening ears can create a supported workforce
Written by Alan Richardson, Head of Expert Advice at LifeSearch With one in five of us needing to take time off work due to stress in the...
Value added benefits supporting mental health conversations
Value Added Benefits (VABs) as part of critical illness and life insurance cover are helping to ease conversations about mental health and...
Simple policies to improve mental health in the workplace
Written by Nicki Pritchard, Managing Partner, Anderson Quigley Are we seeing a mental health crisis in our workplaces?...
Moving more for our mental healthÂ
Written by Adrian Firth, Employee Benefits Consultant, Mattioli Woods This year, Mental Health Awareness Week’s focus is on ‘moving more...
GRiD welcomes HelloSelf in support of better mental healthÂ
The industry body for group risk, GRiD, has welcomed its newest member HelloSelf. A virtual provider of psychological therapy services,...
‘Sicknote Culture’: Why It’s up to Employers to Change the Status Quo
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent speech on Britain’s sick note culture highlights how something’s ‘gone wrong’ since Covid, an expert...
Mental Health: Why end of life planning is critical to wellbeing
Written by Mark Wood, Chairman of Everest Helping your clients to make the right decisions for later-life is not just an important part of...
During illness, trauma or bereavement, talking to someone outside of family and friends, most valued by 77%
During illness, either mental or physical, trauma or bereavement, RedArc found that having someone to talk to outside of immediate family...
Mental health underpins everything to do with a person’s health and wellbeing, and must be prioritised by employers
With Mental Health Awareness Week taking place from 13 to 19 May 2024, Towergate Health & Protection is keen to increase understanding...
Why prioritising employee stress is important all year round
An estimated 74% of UK adults feel so stressed they have been overwhelmed or unable to cope and the most common cause of stress is...
Global Benchmark on workplace mental health suggests CEO leadership integral to healthy workplaces
London, World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2023: The CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark, the world’s only global investor benchmark...
World Mental Health Day: 9% of parents tell no one about child’s medical fears – MetLife UK
Having protection in place that supports families should their child(ren) have an accident or become seriously ill, historically hasn’t...
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