The Money Marketing Podcast

Protecting customers’ health to build their financial resilience - Protection & Wellbeing Series

In the first episode of the Protection & Wellbeing Podcast, brought to you by Royal London, editor at Money Marketing, Katey Pigden is joined by Christina Rigby, product owner at Royal London, and Alex Heaton, founder and ceo at LiveSmart UK. 
In this episode, they discuss:
the importance of providing access to early care, preventative, medical services in a protection plan.
Why offering tangible benefits to customers - that are linked to maintaining or improving their health and wellbeing – is a responsible step for providers to take, to help protect customers’ health and build their financial resilience.
Royal London's efforts in enhancing its Helping Hand service, which is available with all advised protection plans, to include a range of online wellbeing services to help plan owners understand how small changes in their lifestyle can help to improve their overall health, and to help stop health small issues now becoming bigger problems later on.
Listen out for the next episode of Protection & Wellbeing Podcast which is a series in association with Royal London, coming out every Monday.

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Why we need more Frank Fields

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