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Captain Kirk has cancer.  William Shatner, who played the original Star Trek space adventurer, has been diagnosed with melanoma, which has spread to his lungs and brain.  Furthermore, the diagnosis came while...

Andy Stephenson, a stalwart of the group risk sector who has just retired from his role as senior account manager at Aviva, speaks to Health & Protection about starting out as a...

Employers are facing a multitude of challenges across their businesses today, including rising health-related absences. In 2025, the Labour Force Survey estimated 148.8 million working days were lost because of sickness or...

Health & Protection is delighted to announce that Lia’s Wings is the charity partner of the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026. Lia’s Wings delivers life-saving air transfers by plane both within...

Baroness Casey has launched the Big Conversation on Care which will ask people in England how its adult social care system should be reformed. The announcement came as new PM Andy Burnham...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is contacting firms operating in the insurance market whose business models “may be creating heightened risks of conflicts of interest”. The regulator also warned it was “monitoring...

As part of Health & Protection’s Guide to PMI for new entrants, Jon Derbyshire, training and competency manager at Santé Group explains how a compliant process builds trust with consumers and regulatory certainty.  ...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged firms to up their game to make Consumer Duty monitoring proactive and outcomes-focused. It also wants them to demonstrate how information drives action and test...

As part of Health & Protection’s Guide to PMI for new entrants, Dave Middleton, executive chairman of the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII), explores the importance of training and development for...

Complaints about protection and health insurance products have continued to rise with private medical insurance (PMI) and income protection (IP) seeing the greatest increases, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Data...