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Stonebridge has promoted John Scrivens from head of sales to sales director. Scrivens (pictured) will join the board and assume responsibility for the network’s protection and general insurance propositions while Jo Carrasco, who...

The Protection Distributors’ Group (PDG) is calling on advice firms and networks to tell their employees and customers if they are operating with loaded premiums. The subject was raised in a press...

Legal & General’s retail protection business has simplified its life and critical illness policy documents in a bid to make them easier for customers to understand and help advisers to explain cover...

One in three men would not tell their partner if they had cancer. This is according to a survey of 3,000 men conducted by Bupa and released ahead of Valentine’s Day. The...

Swiss Re has appointed Jennifer Gilchrist as protection industry affairs manager. Gilchrist (pictured) joins from Royal London where she was a protection specialist. She had been with the mutual since January 2009....

The number of people waiting to start NHS treatment in England has fallen to 7.29 million, according to official data. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (RHQ) did not submit any data...

The Investment & Life Assurance Group (ILAG) has added OneFamily Group and its protection brand, Beagle Street as members. The trade association, whose membership includes professionals from the life insurance, pensions, and...

Perci Health has launched a virtual consultant-led chemotherapy-related neuropathy clinic.  Delivered as a national virtual service, the clinic brings together specialists in pain, physiotherapy, exercise oncology and psychology. The move follows the...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) gave the sector some “pretty good” grades in its Market Study interim report, but there is more work to do on improving service levels and closing the...

Medichecks has acquired My Menopause Centre for an undisclosed sum. The specialist menopause health platform and clinic was co-founded in 2021 by Helen Normoyle and Dr Clare Spencer. As part of the...