Author: Beverly Roberts

RedArc, the nurse-led health and wellbeing support service, is highlighting that a focus on connectedness can be a key way to prevent the incidence of suicide, and ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, it believes employers and insurers should consider building this message and support into their communications and provision. Suicide can be prevented; and… Continue reading →

Consumer Duty should lead to more proactive referrals for added-value support, says RedArc, the nurse-led health and wellbeing service. The wealth of support that’s added to many insurance policies – including for critical illness, mental health and bereavement – all help to meet the requirements of Consumer Duty in ensuring the right outcomes for those… Continue reading →

Over 330 (331) Benenden Health members were provided with support for cancer during the first twelve months of the mutual organisation offering support for the disease via RedArc’s experienced registered nurses. The not-for-profit healthcare provider added RedArc to its range of partners in June 2022, recognising that when a member is diagnosed with cancer, specialist… Continue reading →

RedArc is warning employers and insurers that bereavement has many facets, and structured counselling is only one of a number of possible solutions for those affected, and should not be the default recommendation for dealing with bereavement. In RedArc’s experience, many employers and insurers typically offer bereavement counselling as their primary or sole solution for… Continue reading →

RedArc warns that it is vital insurers’ and employers’ support goes beyond the all-clear • As there may be no ‘back to normal’ for cancer survivors Cancer is one of the conditions for which added-value support via health and protection insurances is most sought. RedArc’s experience is that while people who are newly diagnosed and… Continue reading →

This Mental Health Awareness Week, Christine Husbands, commercial director for RedArc, comments on why a nuanced approach to mental health support is required: “This Mental Health Awareness Week’s theme is anxiety. Many people may be currently experiencing anxious feelings due to a number of things, including the current cost-of-living crisis, but this type of anxiety… Continue reading →

As the backlog within the NHS continues to grow, RedArc, the nurse-led health and wellbeing service, explains that employers, insurers and advisers have a role to play in helping people navigate the system and bridge the gap. People need to know what is available, what to ask for, and the best ways to access care… Continue reading →

RedArc Nurses celebrates its 25-year anniversary this week and has seen the need for support skyrocket. Initially, the company supported people as part of the claim process for critical illness. At that time, cancer, cardiac and stroke made up 88% of the conditions they supported; the three conditions combined are now just 29%, as the… Continue reading →

RedArc believes insurers can play their part in this year’s World Cancer Day, the theme of which is ‘Close the Care Gap,’ by focusing attention on ensuring people living with cancer get the care they require and deserve.  Three steps to ‘Close the Care Gap’ on cancer for insurers RedArc suggests that insurers can help… Continue reading →

Ahead of this year’s World Mental Health Day, Christine Husbands, managing director, RedArc, comments that before support for mental health is implemented, there needs to be awareness of how it can fall short. She says: ‘Mental health is a multi-faceted area of health and wellbeing, and by its nature that calls for a multi-faceted approach… Continue reading →