Covid-19

Doctors are bracing themselves for a “wave” of complaints from patients due to the difficulties posed by lockdown. A survey carried out by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) and GPonline found that...

Britain’s private healthcare sector showed resilience towards the end of last year – even as it dedicated most of its capacity to the NHS to deal with the pandemic. Figures from the...

The independent and private hospital and healthcare sector stands ready to continue to deliver services on behalf of the NHS as the health service gets set to undergo further reforms designed to...

Over a quarter of adults in Britain now have low financial resilience as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, official figures show. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has conducted research...

One in three people have not gone to their GP for ongoing health symptoms since the pandemic began, research shows. Many do not want to ‘waste their doctor’s time’ while others are...

The number of routine operations being carried out in the NHS fell by nearly a quarter in January as hospitals tried to cope with the influx of coronavirus patients during a difficult start...

Resilience has been put at the heart of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association’s  vision for the next year as the trade body published its manifesto for 2021. The trade body used the...

Patients can expect to wait for more than 12 months to receive routine NHS procedures ‘for some years’, health bosses have warned. Waiting more than a year for treatment will become ‘normal’...

The number of people buying private health insurance for the first time has doubled since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, sales figures suggest. UK protection comparison site ActiveQuote said that sales...

Employee benefits provider Unum has said that increased interest from family members is one reason behind a major rise in the number of registrations for its health and wellbeing and remote GP...