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Spectrum.Life has agreed a strategic partnership with Northern Ireland primary health and urgent care GP provider Duality Healthcare. From April 2024, Duality Healthcare memberships, which start at £6.99 per month, will automatically...

Unum UK paid more than £471m in claims in 2023 - including £229m for income protection, £160m for life insurance and £43m for critical illness cover. This was up from £395m in claims...

The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped how people work, leading to significant changes in global workforce movements bringing opportunities and challenges to the international private medical insurance sector.  Trends include the rise...

Health assessment provider Bluecrest Wellness has appointed Dr Martin Thornton as chief medical officer. Dr Thornton (pictured) will lead the clinical oversight of Bluecrest's health assessments, and the subsequent health advice given...

The Mortgage Advice Bureau has developed a tool designed to assess a customer’s financial resilience based on their level of protection. The financial risk assessment tool shows customers how capable they are...

Events and conferences in the insurance sector certainly feel different to the way they did years ago. And women who have plied their trade in the protection and health sectors for decades...

Delaying key life events like getting married, having children or buying a home is a key factor behind two in five adults across the UK who are also putting off taking out...

MetLife UK is relaunching a limited term option to its group income protection offering. The service provides monthly payments for long-term absence as well as supporting services such as GP24 (a 24/7...

  Two in three consumers say that if a critical illness cover provider expands the list of critical illness conditions covered by its policy, they expect the wider criteria to be available...

Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, particularly for GP and dentistry services, according to analysis of the latest British Social Attitudes survey (BSA) published today...