Advisers have "critical" role in dealing with Covid-19 health fallout

Advisers have a "critical role" to play in helping clients, as well as wider society, ahead of what could be a significant health fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, a panel of industry experts have stated. Speaking at the COVER Health Insurance Live event, panellists discussed the various issues that had arisen from the 18 month-long pandemic in the UK. On top of delayed and cancelled treatments for critical illnesses such as cancer, many people in the UK have avoided seeing their GPs, which disrupted opportunities for early diagnosis. Lockdown has also exacerbated peoples' mental...