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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...

Justin Harper is joining MetLife and taking on a new role as individual protection product manager at the insurer. Harper (pictured) previously spent more than 16 years at LV= before leaving earlier...

Royal London has joined CIExpert's digital dashboard Insight Zone. The insurer's range of personal and business menu plans, including the whole of life plan and diabetes life cover, will be available in...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by 15% in the first quarter of the 2022-23 financial year, according to data from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The latest data showed 171...

IPipeline has agreed a partnership with customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Plannr. The development of Plannr was funded in part by a kick-starter campaign among future users of the platform. It...

Advice firm Beckett Financial Services has joined group risk industry body Grid. Lesley Delaney, operations director at Becketts, said: "We can see so many opportunities in membership of Grid, and we’re very...

The pandemic has focused minds on our own mortality as never before - and high net worth (HNW) individuals are no different, with behvaiour shifts becoming apparent. In terms of their own...