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Long wait times for NHS treatment or a lack of treatment availability continues to be the main driving force for patients to go private, according to research from the Private Healthcare Information...

Advised pure protection product sales rose by almost 18% over the last four years while non-advised sales dropped by nearly 9%, with intermediaries increasing their market share to more than 83% of...

Colin Boxall has officially retired from the health and protection industry, he announced yesterday. Boxall (pictured centre right) was owner and executive director of the Maidstone-based Advo Group for more than 16...

Private healthcare providers are delivering nearly one in five of all NHS operations, according to Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) analysis of NHS data. The body's analysis also showed in the first...

A private hospital has been publicly named for breaking rules around providing incentives to consultants for at least six years and told to rectify the situation by the end of the year....

Young people who never smoke could spend around a decade more of their lives in good health than those who start smoking at 18 and remain lifelong smokers. This is according to...

Stand-up comedian Kevin Bridges will host the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024. Bridges is one of the UK’s top comedians having started performing in 2004 shortly after his seventeenth birthday. He...

Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) raised a further £69m for the Treasury in June 2024, according to latest HM Revenue & Customs tax receipts data. Following a record £8.1bn of IPT collections last...

Simplyhealth is adding a new skin health service provided by MySkinDoctor to its cash plan products. The service enables customers to access online dermatology support remotely via their smartphone or tablet, without...

Vitality saw a 45% increase in the proportion of members claiming between 2019 and 2023 according to its 2024 Health Claims Report released today.    Vitality said: “This increase in claims has significantly exceeded...