Appointments / Industry

Startup health insurer Peachy has completed a $1.6m funding round with backing from senior insurance industry executives including former CEOs of Bupa, Axa Global Health and the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). Backers...

Neilson Place co-founder Paul Foody is stepping away from his role at the advice platform to join the board of broker firm Reassured as it targets expaning its advised arm and income...

Private medical practitioners and healthcare providers must have greater transparency around conflict of interest declarations and give more prominence to expectations around patient consent. The tighter guidelines are part of the Independent...

LV= has appointed former Bupa and Friends Life UK CEO David Hynam as its incoming chief executive, subject to regulatory approval. Hynam (pictured) has spent 30 years in financial services including the...

Government intends to deliver an "ambitious" deregulatory package later this autumn to "unleash the potential" of the UK financial services sector as part of its plan to drive growth across the UK...

Almost four in 10 businesses with 50 to 249 staff believe employee health and wellbeing is their top stressor at the moment. The Legal & General Wellbeing at Work Barometer 2022 showed...

Advisers are dubious over whether government commitments to improve access to GPs will prove successful amid soaring demand for virtual GP services from customers. The commitments feature in health and social care...

The government's reversal of its National Insurance Contributions (NICs) hike to fund the health and social care levy will hit the UK's coffers to the tune of more than £65bn over the...

Health and Social Care Secretary Thérèse Coffey has committed to maximising use of the private health sector to expand NHS capacity as part of a package of measures in the government's latest...

Cigna is withdrawing from the UK domestic private medical insurance (PMI) and healthcare trusts market, Health & Protection can reveal. At present the insurer offers group PMI schemes and healthcare trust administration...