Employee Assistance Programmes

Aria Assistance, formed after the management buyout of Europ Assistance UK & Ireland, is fulfilling its commitment to providing occupational health services with the acquisition of Premier Occupational Healthcare (POHC).

More than half (51%) of UK workers have suffered from back pain in the last 12 months with one in five needing time off work as a result, research finds.

Lack of priority within the NHS represents an opportunity for the private healthcare sector the UK Rehabilitation Council has said.

The prolonged downward trend in employee absence rates has plateaued with long term sickness increasing, new research finds.

As the first of a series of improvements, Universal Provident (UP) has added a employee assistance programme (EAP) and a care advisory service to its group PMI plan, Choices Corporate.

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has released a guide tackling mental illness issues in the workplace.

Financial directors' hold "ridiculous" expectations for the return on investment of their healthcare benefits and sickness absence spend, the Work Foundation has said.

Employing wellbeing strategies in the workplace will backfire if the workforce believe the aim is to get more work out of them Simplyhealth has said.

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

Cigna is set to extend its coverage of mental health conditions across the entire product range.