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South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to sign the National Health Insurance bill (NHI) into law tomorrow (15 May 2024).   But the bill has proven controversial, with private sector organisation...

This Mental Health Awareness Week, Health & Protection features Florence Streames, finance assistant at Velvet Mortgage and Insure Services, who speaks about building a career in protection while coping with severe obsessive...

Most workers who pay for dental care find it difficult to do so, according to research from Health Shield Friendly Society. The survey of 564 people in full- or part-time work found...

Towergate Health & Protection has appointed Kate Kilpatrick as head of marketing - employee benefits. Following the creation of its centralised advisory marketing team last year, Kilpatrick (pictured) will work in partnership...

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Saudi Arabia has appointed Dr Björn Zoéga as deputy CEO.  Icelander Björn Zoéga's career in healthcare management and policy includes his most recent...

Value added benefits (VABs) as part of critical illness and life insurance cover are helping to ease conversations about mental health and provide vital support, according to research from HSBC Life (UK). ...

It is unsurprising that demand for mental health services has rocketed over the past couple of years. A global pandemic followed by a cost of living crisis has inevitably taken its toll...

Mental ill health accounted for the most common reason for customers to call Zurich’s employee assistance programme (EAP), but this coincided with a dramatic increase in the number of customer calls on...

Global insurance brokerage Arthur J Gallagher & Co has acquired Melbourne, Victoria-based Health Insurance Consultants Australia (HICA).   Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  HICA is a specialist health insurance consultancy...

Whether international private medical insurance (IPMI) advisers should move to a fee only model was one of the questions raised at Health & Protection's third annual IPMI Summit last week. A new...