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Oxygen, a US-based financial technology company, has announced that it will be temporarily suspending its banking services, as it switches gears towards health insurance.  Oxygen said: "We are stepping into a new...

The health insurance sector needs joined-up short term and long term thinking from all government departments around improving the health and wellbeing of people in the UK. This is according to Katie...

Spire Healthcare Abergele has opened its doors to patients. The £5.5m clinic will provide people across North Wales access to a range of surgical treatments and diagnoses, and has created 14 new...

Increasing an individual's daily number of steps to 7,000 a day could cut their risk of cancer and diabetes by 34%. This is according to Adrian Gore, founder of Discovery Vitality, who...

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is investigating claims from the BBC that  employee assistance programme provider (EAP) Health Assured has behaved in an unethical way, but the company has...

The Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) announced today that it is imposing a formal measure on two health insurers for failure to fulfil their duty of care.  The NZa is an autonomous administrative...

Despite recent increases, many pensioners are barely breaking even, as the state pension only exceeds the average cost of living for pensioners by £74.40, according to research by Senior Capital.  The national...

NHS hospital costs could be cut by as much as £15 billion per year if half of the UK’s inactive adult population started walking 5,000 steps once a week, while those with...

AIG Life has revealed a surge in usage of its free virtual healthcare service, Smart Health, with the service being used more than 100,000 times since its launch in August 2019. A...

British Friendly has paid 89% of new income protection claims in 2023 and just under £5m to its members in income protection, discretionary BF care claims and fracture cover claims. The mutual...