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Spire Healthcare is installing solar panels on the the rooves of some of its sites and improving the insulation of its buildings as part of a drive to go carbon neutral by...

Fresh data from The King's Fund and Healthwatch England has higlighted the strain patients, particularly those in deprived areas, are under as NHS backlogs continue to build as a result of the...

Life insurer Manulife has appointed Pankaj Banerjee as chief distribution officer for Asia. Banerjee (pictured) joins from AIA, where he was CEO for group partnership distribution, covering all of AIA Group's markets....

Introducing simple protection policies, group risk auto-enrolment and microinsurance products would help reduce lower-income customers’ exclusion from insurance, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has said. The panel of lower-income people...

Unum UK has appointed John Hyde as chief marketing officer. Hyde joins Unum’s executive committee from Hastings Direct where he was head of growth products and previously spent nine years at Legal...

A financial adviser has been banned and stripped of his permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after failing to declare more than £407,000 of income to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by a fifth in the first three months of the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Overall complaints regarding the health...

Starting income protection (IP) conversations, signposting to specialists and sharing positive stories around claims are just some of the pledges made by leading personalities of the protection industry. To round off Income...

The Health and Social Care Committee of MPs has launched an inquiry into NHS litigation reform. The committee will consider the case against a background of a "significant" increase in costs, and...

Insurers need to get more creative in designing income protection (IP) cover for people who have suffered cancer or heart disease, according to Royal London. The insurer told the Income Protection Taskforce’s...