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Swiss Re is to ‘double down’ on its efforts to make sure the insurance industry does all it can to support people with their health and wellness needs. The global insurance powerhouse...

Bupa Health Clinics has launched a new Covid-19 testing service with self-swab kits sent to customers' homes, costing £149. The test tells customers if they currently have COVID-19, and includes follow up...

Understanding the personality types of employees can help improve the effectiveness of corporate wellbeing strategies as we transition towards a post-Covid environment according to new research from Aviva. Aviva’s ‘Embracing the Age...

Medicash, the Liverpool-based cash plan provider which has over 300,000 health cover policyholders across the UK, celebrates its 150th anniversary today. The organisation, which was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool...

Work to test how NHS and private/independent sector hospital performance data can be aligned has begun. The pilots, by the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) and NHS Digital, mark a major milestone...

Three in four teenagers have experienced physical health issues related to poor mental health since March last year, research shows. A study carried out for Bupa shows that the overwhelming majority of...

South African medical insurers have pledged to pay for a Covid-19 vaccine for millions of people who do not have coverage in a programme that could cost as much as 7 billion...

  A cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) engine that allows insurers’ underwriting rules to be reoptimised and incorporate latest medical insights has launched. UnderwritingPal (UWPal), the engine being launched by RGAX,...

Employers are being urged to do more to promote the employee benefits that they offer to staff as part of the recruitment process. The Office for National Statistics estimates there were 547,000...

AIG Life has appointed Neil Davies as commercial director, reporting to Phil Willcock, the provider's CEO. The appointment comes following the decision of Nicola Dryden, partnership director, to leave AIG Life after...