February 2021

Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Content warning: discussion of eating disorders, signs and symptoms. If you need help with an eating disorder, contact B...Read more
Feb 25 2021

Self-harm in the workplace
A global study covering 40 countries has discovered that roughly 17% of people will self-harm during their lifetime.
O...Read more
Feb 23 2021

Keeping relationships positive during COVID-19
How do you feel your relationship is faring during the global pandemic?
Relationships are the glue that bonds us all to...Read more
Feb 23 2021

Detoxing the workplace during COVID-19
According to the latest reports, one in five Brits quit their job due to toxic workplace culture.
In many ways, the co...Read more
Feb 22 2021

COVID-19—avoiding negativity online
We live in a world more interconnected than ever before. We can each broadcast our thoughts, feelings and opinions to bi...Read more
Feb 19 2021

Vote for us at the Health & Protection Awards 2021!
It’s been a bit of a tough year for everyone. At Health Assured, we’re proud of the way our employee assistance programm...Read more
Feb 16 2021

International Day of Happiness 2021
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that the average ratings of happiness dro...Read more
Feb 15 2021

World Sleep Day 2021
World Sleep Day—the annual celebration of healthy sleeping patterns and awareness day for sleep disorders—falls on the 1...Read more
Feb 11 2021

Practical guidance for victims of fraud
An act of fraud is considered to have been committed where deception or dishonesty is used for an unlawful gain which ca...Read more
Feb 9 2021

How to Manage Attitudes in the Workplace
There are plenty of rules—written and unwritten, social, formal and hierarchical—that govern over the workplace. One of ...Read more
Feb 5 2021
January 2021

Mental Fitness
We are having a mental health revolution in the UK. We are becoming more aware of the effects of mental illness and the ...Read more
Jan 29 2021

Managing long COVID in your organisation
According to a recent study, up to 60,000 people in the UK could be suffering from long COVID symptoms for more than thr...Read more
Jan 25 2021

Supporting your people’s wellbeing during lockdown
A study led by the University of Glasgow has found that one in ten people experienced suicidal thoughts in the first UK ...Read more
Jan 22 2021

Online safety for remote workers
Many, if not most office workers have been shifted into remote working at some point over the past year. Excluding key w...Read more
Jan 21 2021

Health Assured's 2020 trend report
What a year 2020 was—12 months ago, none of us could have predicted how the year would go. Now, as we head into 2021, th...Read more
Jan 20 2021

World Cancer Day 2021
According to statistics from Cancer Research UK, cancer survival in the UK has doubled in the last 40 years.
This ye...Read more
Jan 20 2021

Time to Talk Day 2021
On 4th February 2021, we will acknowledge Time to Talk Day (TTTD), a campaign created by Time to Change, a leading menta...Read more
Jan 18 2021

Practical steps following a bereavement
It can be difficult to know what steps should be taken following the loss of a loved one. This article provides guidance...Read more
Jan 14 2021

Managing finances during COVID-19
Managing your finances can be difficult at any time, not least following the effects of Covid-19, which has highlighted ...Read more
Jan 12 2021

Staying safe and keeping things clean during the pandemic
While compared to the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic—all the way back in March 2020—we know a lot more about contro...Read more
Jan 11 2021
December 2020

Obesity Awareness Week 2021
In research released by the NHS in May 2020, it was found that throughout 2018/19, 11,117 hospital admissions in the Uni...Read more
Dec 21 2020