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The UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 are open for entries from advisers, while voting for the provider awards is also underway. There are 15 Awards for advisers to highlight the quality...

Medical care in the UK can best be explained in numbers. Almost 3.5 million people living on these islands has cancer and every 75 seconds another person joins them. A further 5.8...

Advisers need to change their approach if they are to increase membership of income protection (IP) products among younger consumers, according to three industry leaders. Sector representatives noted how the product was...

Maintaining the affordability of premiums for international private medical insurance (IPMI) in Latin America is one of the biggest challenges for the sector, according to World of America CEO Lourdes Peters. Peters...

Health & Protection is launching the second edition of its provider service ratings for insurers in the UK health and protection markets. The research measures the service performance of all the key...

Voting for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 is now open. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been outstanding...

Private medical insurance (PMI) pushed the number of private hospital admissions in the UK to a third-quarter record in 2025, according to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN). The number of admissions...

Legal & General has significantly cut back on issuing quotes for group critical illness (CI) schemes, Health & Protection can reveal. The insurer told Health & Protection it was not exiting the...

Health & Protection is launching an exclusive AI in Insurance microsite. The site explores this pivotal time for the whole health and protection insurance industry including the regulatory, ethical and practical implications of...

Claims ratios from pure protection insurance products are generally above 50% and typically higher than most general insurance (GI) products, according to analysis from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Ratios for income...