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Perci Health, an online platform support cancer patients has raised £3.4m in a seed round led by Octopus Ventures. The additional funds will enable the company to further invest into its technology...

Insurance United Against Dementia (IUAD) has now raised more than £8m for the Alzheimer’s Society. Launched in 2017 in partnership with the charity, IUAD is led by senior professionals from across the...

Manchester-based financial planning firm Pareto has joined group risk industry trade body Grid. Pareto supports its business clients across a number of areas including employee benefits and protection insurance. It also offers...

More than half of Brits (53%) would consider seeing a private GP in the future, according to a poll commissioned by Spire Healthcare. A third (32%) of the 2,000 respondents who took...

The Exeter has appointed proposition leads for its healthcare and protection products as well as a new head of marketing. Matt Foster has been promoted to proposition lead for healthcare having been...

The first three months of 2023 saw the highest number of excess deaths in the UK since the start of the second wave of the pandemic. Based on provisional Office for National...

The vast majority of young people are struggling with their mental health, according to research from mental health charity Mind. The poll of 2,000 18-24 year olds revealed 95% were struggling with...

Checks made by Aviva staff helped convict an income protection (IP) insurance fraudster after he claimed more than £20,000 of lost income from a job he did not have. Sydenham man Neil...

LSL saw a 3% decline in protection and insurance fee income in 2022, swung to a near £60m pre-tax loss over the year and noted its Pivotal Growth joint venture had not...

Canada Life is offering the Toothfairy a dental care app to all group protection customers. The app has been created by two dentists and uses patent-pending technology to solve a number of...