For many people across the country, the additional Bank Holiday to mark the Queen’s funeral provided an important opportunity to mourn the loss of Britain’s longest reigning monarch. For some employers, however, it presented an unprecedented and delicate situation. Particularly in sectors such as hospitality, the demands on the business were potentially at odds with [...]

Vintage would like to express its sorrow at the passing of Her Majesty The Queen and to extend our condolences to the Royal Family at this time. We would like to join together with the rest of the country in offering our thanks to Her Majesty during this period of mourning, which provides us all [...]

It has been said that nothing you wear is more important than your smile. And while the more fashion conscious might disagree with that statement, it rings increasingly true among today’s workforce. In recent years, there has been growing interest - particularly among younger generations - in dental treatments designed to improve the appearance of [...]

While the long-term effects of the pandemic are still continuing to unfold, there are aspects of our lives that certainly look to have been reset by the changes enforced by Covid-19. An example is how we engage with healthcare providers. For post-Covid generations, it will be entirely accepted – and perhaps even expected - for [...]

There are few people living in the United Kingdom who wouldn’t consider themselves fortunate to have access to the NHS. As our National Health Service, it engenders great pride and huge levels of good will. For evidence, you only have to reflect on all the hand-drawn rainbows that adorned windows across the country during the [...]

When it was first introduced in 1960, the Ministry of Transport test – or MOT as it’s commonly known – was a voluntary check-up designed to assess the ‘health’ of cars every year. Today, it’s an essential part of vehicle ownership, providing us with information on any areas that might need care and attention as [...]

For sunseekers and those with a sense of wanderlust, the opening up of International Travel restrictions has been a welcome move that paves the way for a long-awaited holiday on foreign shores. After several years when getting away has been complicated by Covid-19, increasing numbers of people are considering leaving the UK for their 2022 [...]

When the UK was placed into lockdown in March 2020 and the population braced itself for the impending impact of a wave of Covid-19 infections, few people were thinking about the possibility of a flu-like virus causing longer-term health problems. Within two months, however, a proportion of those affected by Covid began talking about how [...]

Since February 2020, the global healthcare conversation has been dominated by one topic: Covid-19. Now, with restrictions having eased, we are starting to get a true understanding of the pandemic’s impact on our healthcare systems and its influence on how we approach our own health. One thing that is clear is the effect of the [...]

While private medical insurance (PMI) has traditionally been seen as the premise of the wealthy and/or older generations, things have changed dramatically over the past few decades. A combination of consistently higher quality private care and access to the very best treatments has developed hand in hand with untenable NHS waiting lists and a growing [...]