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Chief executive and founder of the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) Matt James is to step down following a decade in the role. PHIN said it has already begun the search for...

LV= has launched a simpler version of its life and critical illness (CI) policy. LV= outlined the move in an interview with Health & Protection in October where the insurer revealed it...

Aegon has extended its immediate cover facility for business protection and relevant life to 180 days for life protection and 90 days for critical illness. It has also trimmed the income protection...

Pacific Life Re has appointed Nicholas Lax as head of research and development in its Europe business unit. Lax joined the firm in 2018 as a member of its research and development...

Upcoming regulation including changes to product pricing practices, are among the biggest challenges facing insurance professionals in the year ahead. This is according to research from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) whose...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) staff are being balloted for strike action over changes to the regulator’s pay and benefits policy announced in October. The FCA’s original proposals included adding an excess for...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated Cygnet Hospital Sheffield good following an inspection which took place in September. The children and young people's mental health hospital had been previously rated as...

A career breakers programme has successfully helped a candidate return to the insurance sector after more than two decades. Last year, Health & Protection reported about a programme led by Inclusivity Partners...

NHS dentistry is “hanging by a thread” with some patients waiting two years for routine check ups, unions have warned. BBC analysis of data from England and Wales shows more than 2,500...

Advisers should tap into the emotional triggers behind buying life insurance amid the biggest squeeze in the cost of living in 30 years, according to Chris Blackwood, managing director of communications agency...