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Medicash appoints two non-exec directors to its board
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Swiss Re to intensify its focus on health and wellbeing in 2021
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Medicash refreshes brand and pledges more charitable giving as cash plan provider celebrates 150-year anniversary
Medicash, the Liverpool-based cash plan provider which has over 300,000 health cover policyholders across the UK, celebrates its 150th anniversary today....
Private hospital and NHS hospital performance comparison pilots get underway
Work to test how NHS and private/independent sector hospital performance data can be aligned has begun. The pilots, by the...
Teenagers suffering poor physical health as a result mental toll of pandemic
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