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The impact of record NHS waiting lists has left no parts of the country unscathed. Even high net worth individuals (HNWI) no longer assume they can be guaranteed good health, so are...

Dr Rebecca Brady, medical director at HCML and practising GP, speaks to Health & Protection about balancing her work as a GP with her role at HCML, supporting a patient who had...

Reinsuring its UK protection insurance book as part of the sale to Royal London is expected to cost Aegon around €29m (approximately £25m). The insurer revealed the figure as part of its...

Government has confirmed plans to consolidate NHS England's current 10 performance standards into three key standards. Earlier this week reports emerged that NHS England was planning to scrap two thirds of its...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has introduced claim assessment times as a new measure for its claims charter. The move comes as the PDG published its list of provider claims charter signatories...

Pacific Life Re has appointed Vasan Errakiah to the newly created role of general manager, Asia markets. Errakiah (pictured) takes charge of the life and health reinsurer’s market activities throughout Asia, with...

Aviva's efforts to improve service levels for its private medical insurance (PMI) customers will not affect growth plans, with service expected to return to normal by the end of the year, according...

Funeral plan provider Golden Charter has appointed Charles Norman as chief executive officer (CEO). Norman (pictured) joins as CEO designate on 1 September, formally taking over leadership upon completion of Financial Conduct...

Luxembourg-based insurer Foyer has completed its acquisition of compatriot IPMI provider Globality, after receiving regulatory approval from the Commissariat aux Assurances.  The newly combined entity is now focusing on the integration stage...

Attitudes across the health and protection insurance sector are changing for the better, but more needs to be done. While some of the sector's youngest professionals have war stories about being asked...