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The government has announced that the new Bereavement Support Payment which comes into effect in April this year will be extended from 1 year to 18 months, although payments are now lower on a monthly basis.

Health Shield has acquired Prevent plc, a specialist in workplace health screening and occupational health risk surveillance assessment.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has told MPs he no longer believes Brexit to be the biggest risk to the financial stability of the UK.

After the British Red Cross last week compared the pressures facing the NHS to a "humanitarian crisis", nurses have reported serious concerns over the quality of care they can provide, in what for many are "the worst conditions they have ever experienced."...

The workplace could be the best place for the mass adoption of health tech in the UK helping to improve and maintain employees' health through company wellness programmes - if only workers got more support from their employers, research has found.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today published guidelines on electronic paperless requests for medical information from GPs that insurers need when providing protection insurance.

Charity LegaCare has teamed up with protection stalwarts Peter Le Beau and Future Proof to further raise the profile of the charity as it embarks on piloting a new scheme.

AIG Life has created The Spencer Family - a fictitious family that the insurer will be using in communications to help advisers make protection needs more 'real' for their clients.

RedArc, providers of specialist personal nurse advisers, has partnered with Healix Health Services Ltd, to provide a Second Medical Opinion service in the UK.

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition linked to Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Partners, will be holding five specialist protection events across the country in the first quarter of the year.