mental health

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Mental health referrals up 30%

Cost to economy is up to £99bn

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

Missed help in income protection policies highlighted

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

Mental health claims are growing and now make up a third of all those received on group income protection (GIP) policies, according to Legal & General.

Workplace stress has reached a four-year high with British workers being the most stressed compared to colleagues in some of the world's biggest economies, a new report has found.

Employee assistance programmes are in the spotlight due to a schizophrenic approach by government. But as Sue Weir points out, they are backed by solid research.

The new NHS focus on patient outcomes will specifically target getting those suffering long term conditions or mental illness back into work.