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Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...

Almost three quarters (73%) of Aviva individual and group protection customers who have returned a valid annual health check through the insurer's DigiCare+ and DigiCare+ Workplace service over the past year suffer...

Royal London has enhanced its Helping Hand service to include health and wellbeing support for new customers with the add-ons going live for existing customers soon. The enhancements mean customers who purchase...

Naomi Greatorex is to replace Alan Knowles on the Income Protection Task Force's steering committee. Greatorex, the owner of Heath Protection Solutions, joins Richard Walsh, Justin Harper, Mark Jones and Setul Mehta...

Independent charitable hospital King Edward VII's has opened a facility offering diagnostic services and outpatient care. The Kantor Medical Centre (KMC) situated opposite the main hospital on Beaumont Street is housed across...

The private hospital sector is earning a minimum of between £75m and £90m a month as a result of the deal struck with the NHS in England just to be on standby...

Openwork is launching a private medical insurance (PMI) referral service with independent broker Usay Compare. The deal sees Usay Compare support advisers across The Openwork Partnership network to help and protect more...

Indian workplace health insurance and benefits provider Plum has appointed five senior leaders. Vinod Chandramouli is taking the position of vice president – sales, having previously led the ASEAN business at Freshworks...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Jonathan Clark as interim CEO, with immediate effect. Clark is former president of the CII and the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, and was CII...

The number of people awaiting treatment on hospital waiting lists in England has reached just under six million, according to NHS data. The figures for the end of November before the full...