Over two-thirds of (69%) of senior business managers and owners don't believe suffering stress, anxiety or depression is serious enough to miss work, worrying research from AXA PPP has found.
Bupa has added cash benefits for health expenses to its Business Fit product, available to corporates and intermediary groups from 1 April 2015.
Aon has launched a health risk forecaster to help companies understand their future health expenditure and control risks.
The majority of HR professionals are now regularly engaging with employees to gain an insight into their mental wellbeing, a survey for PMI Health Group has found.
The Access to Work (AtW) programme is helping only a minority of the disabled people it could benefit the Work and Pensions Select Committee has warned.
Back-to-work schemes run by the Work Programme and Jobcentre plus are ineffective for those with mental health problems and an alternative is needed, the charity Mind has said.
More patients are reporting a good overall A&E experience with the NHS, however many improvements remain to be made, a patient survey by the Care Quality Commission has found.
The government has announced pilot schemes to get more disabled people and people with long term medical conditions into employment.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg plans to ramp up efforts to tackle mental health discrimination and improve services by setting up and chairing a cross-government taskforce.
The potential cost of employee mental health problems to businesses has been highlighted in two separate pieces of research from two insurers.