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The protection sector needs to do more to promote the industry as a rewarding career destination to the next generation of advisers as early as possible. This is according to Naomi Greatorex,...

A shareholder rebellion could jeopardise Australian healthcare firm Ramsay Healthcare's £1bn takeover of private healthcare provider Spire. The deal, agreed by both boards late last month, would create a combined operator of...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated a Chelmsford alcohol and drug addiction service inadequate and placed it in special measures, after investigators found shortfalls in measures to ensure patient safety due...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...

Advisers should choose working smarter over working harder and stop making excuses for not talking about protection with customers. This is according to industry veteran Richard Kateley, who recently retired after three...

The merger of Aon and Willis Towers Watson has been thrown into doubt as the sale of the pair's US health benefits businesses has proven "wholly insufficient" to allay the US Department...

Homeworking is increasing loneliness among young people and causing them to feel cut off from colleagues, according to the LifeSearch Health, Wealth and Happiness Index. The research, compiled with the Centre for...

Effective employer wellbeing strategies to tackle the threat posed by long Covid need to be underpinned by a solid framework of agencies including insurers and wellbeing providers. And advisers muct be at...

US life insurer Protective Life Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese life insurer Dai-ichi Life Holdings, has appointed Pooja Rahman as senior vice president (SVP) and chief risk officer. Rahman, who...

HCA Healthcare and Spire Healthcare are among the first private care providers to take part in the Acute Data Alignment Programme bringing together patient data from the NHS with private healthcare. The...