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Digital mental health and wellbeing platform provider Spectrum.Life has appointed two clinical leads. Dr Iona Walker joins as clinical lead of the total mental health team and Dr Fleur-Michelle Coiffait as clinical...

Nearly a fifth of UK adults are self-reporting a long-term musculoskeletal (MSK) condition, a slight increase over 2022, according to the latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).  The proportion...

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...