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The Exeter, the health and protection insurer, has extended its enhanced cash benefit for private medical insurance (PMI) members. The benefit allows members to claim up to £500 per night for any...

A majority of healthcare professionals in Britain say factors other than patients’ best interests play a role in their day-to-day medical decision-making, research shows. A new survey of medical professionals for JMW...

Women – both those in work and those out of work – are reporting higher stress levels than their male counterparts, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the...

A system which enables cancer patients to receive more treatment at home is being introduced by one of the leading hospital operators in North America – and it could prove to be...

Singapore is introducing a new visitor system that it hopes will help to enable more business and high net worth travellers to visit it as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause economic...

Abu Dhabi's NMC Health sold its speciality IVF-care business Eugin Group for Fresenius Helios for EUR430m, in its latest step to become a hospital and clinical operator focused on its core Middle...

Bupa’s acquisition of CS Healthcare’s private medical insurance (PMI) business has received final regulatory approval for it to go ahead on 1 January 2021. The Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) published its approval,...

Countries across Europe should be braced for a huge rise in the number of individuals “in the grip of severe mental illness” in the coming months as the impact of the coronavirus...

Health & Protection editor David Sawers talks to independent consultant Elliott Hurst about some of the industry highs and lows of 2020 - and looks ahead to what might lie in store...

The proportion of adults who are worried about financial matters as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is falling – but there are fears that the number of people developing long-term serious...