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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...

MAXIS Global Benefits Network has struck a deal with ICAS World, the employee assistance programme (EAP) provider, to be its global partner of counselling support and assistance. As part of the partnership,...

Legal & General Insurance has appointed Dr Tarun Gupta as medical officer (MO). An NHS GP, clinical commissioner and occupational physician, he will provide medical opinion on complex group risk cases to...

Six in ten HR professionals expect a “large and permanent increase” in remote working in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. And just 5% expect work to ever go back to the...

LV= is increasing non-medical limits for its Flexible Protection Plan (FPP) Income Protection plan. It has also removed additional evidence requirements such as teleinterviews. The changes, which come into immediate effect, mean...