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Health Shield Friendly Society has launched its latest off-the-shelf health cash plan product with SkinVision and gym discounts added and higher health wellbeing and screening benefits, although prices have increased by around...

Carrie Dobson, sales leader, protection team at Howden Life and Health (previously Assured Futures), speaks to Health & Protection about leaving bar work for the world of protection, taking inspiration from her...

Pivotal Growth has acquired mortgage and protection specialist Select Mortgages & Financial Solutions Ltd for an undisclosed sum. The deal coincides with an agreement to acquire Select Brokers Ltd. This deal is...

Independent life insurance broker Reassured has appointed Mark Townsend as CEO succeeding co-founder, Steve Marshall, who moves to non-executive director. The appointment is subject to regulatory approval. Townsend (pictured) has nearly three...

  The cancer landscape in the UK Around 375,000 new patients are diagnosed with cancer each year in the UK, presenting a lifetime risk of one in two for those born after...

Bluecrest Wellness has appointed Andy Black as chairman.  The current professor of practice at King’s College London, director for health and life sciences advisory service MedInnovate, and chairman of both global health...

Matthew Reed, founder and managing director at Equipsme (pictured), had an additional reason to celebrate this Christmas as he was given the all clear for prostate cancer from his consultant just before...

Scottish Widows has made changes and updated wordings for some conditions on its critical illness Protect plan. Confirming the changes to Health & Protection, Scottish Widows said they had been made in...

Vitality chief operations and growth officer Greg Levine (pictured) explores why using smartphone apps should not be restricted to booking a taxi, ordering a takeaway or banking transactions. While healthcare is clearly...

More than 50% of young people have some form of income protection (IP) in place, according to new research carried out by Opinium for National Friendly. Younger people are also more likely...