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Health and protection insurance complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) increased by almost 20% for the third quarter of the 2024 financial year – compared to the same period last year. ...

Private hospital admissions hit record levels in the third quarter of the 2024, with those from private medical insurance (PMI) up 9% year-on-year. Latest data from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN)...

Four thousand frontline NHS staff will benefit from a free rehabilitation programme under a partnership rolled out between government and Nuffield Health. Health & Protection contacted the Department for Health and Social...

Benenden Health has appointed Mike Hay chief people officer following a six-month period as an interim. Hay (pictured) is a former chief people officer at Saffron Building Society, human resources director at...

Employees do not get enough time off work or support to properly grieve the loss of a loved one according to research from MetLife UK. Research carried out by Censuswide late last...

Insurers are now proving the value of having customers sharing their data with them and patients are more will to do so, according to Chris Carroll CEO of Bupa Insurance. Carroll (pictured...

The Financial Services Compensation Services Scheme (FSCS) has appointed Jenny Watson and Richard Harvey as non-executive directors to the FSCS board, taking-up their roles from 1 March. The pair has experience in...

PwC directors Lucy Beverley and Samantha Jones will be exploring the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) study of the protection market including an inside view of how the regulator handles the review process,...

The evolution of science has enabled the roll out of weight loss injections in a clinically safe way that should drive sustainable behaviour change, according to VitalityHealth commercial director Dr Katie Tryon....

LifeSearch recorded 1,418 individual, family and employer paid claims in 2024, with insurers paying out a total of £105,070,803 – just over £2m a week. The number of claims settled rose 35%...