Health and wellbeing consulting and brokerage firm, Private Health Partnership (PHP) has acquired Dorchester-based Healthcare Matters.
The cost of providing health benefits to employees increased by 4% in 2008 and the number of private medical insurance claims in the same period rose by 3%, according to Mercer.
Haymarket Media has run its first corporate wellbeing event for two days to help staff maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The TUC has advised employers not to panic over the recent media furore surrounding swine flu by stocking up on drugs but to consider contingency plans should "hundreds of thousands of people" become...
Healthcare Connections, which holds the UK's largest independent stockpile of antiviral medication outside of the Government, has confirmed that a major bank has this week registered all 20,000 of its...
The NHS has launched an independent review into the health and wellbeing of its workforce, in order to devise methods to improve staff wellbeing.
The past year has seen the most difficult economic climate for decades - indeed for many people it will have been the worst they have encountered in their working life. And HR professionals are facing...
The Department of Health has called for employers in the public sector to encourage their staff to lose weight - starting with the NHS.
Panasonic has moved away from offering employees traditional private medical insurance and now provides staff with a healthcare trust scheme in the hope of reducing costs by 10%.
A quarter of employers would be less likely to employ or promote a staff member who has bad teeth, although one in four HR managers think staff do not value dental benefits and 63% believe they would...
New guidelines have been issued to help employers manage the problem of staff long-term sickness absence and incapacity for work.
Danish women, who developed breast cancer after working nightshift, have been awarded compensation by their government following research from the World Health Organisation showing disrupted sleep...
