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Private medical insurance (PMI) funded hospital admissions fell in the second quarter of the year, down 2,000 on the corresponding quarter of 2024. Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) data showed 164,000 hospital...

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025 supplement is out now with all the highlights from the night. It includes all the winners, shortlists, photos from the night and insight into the...

Mortgage and protection advice firm Vickers Young has joined network Stonebridge. Founded in 2012 by managing director Corby Macdonald, the Leicestershire firm expanded from a sole adviser operation into a 12-strong team...

Howden has appointed Carla Hammond as chief financial officer for Howden Health & Employee Benefits (HEB) and Barnett Waddingham (BW). In this role, she will lead financial strategy, governance and performance across...

Pivotal Growth has acquired Xact Mortgages, a mortgage and protection broker based in Solihull, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2007 by Jeremy Brown, Xact Mortgages has grown to a team of...

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) is campaigning for mortgage documentation to include nudges about protection insurance. Positive nudges have a key role in ensuring consumers see a future need for protection...

Standard Chartered is launching international private medical insurance (IPMI) through Bupa Global as part of a health and wellbeing offering for its highest value banking clients in Hong Kong, Singapore and India....

Protection providers have been urged to do the “right thing” with 30-day newborn death exclusions from older protection policies and bring them into line with current practices. One adviser said they had...

Fairer Finance has appointed Charles Randell to its independent consumer advisory board. Randell (pictured) is the former chairman of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Systems Regulator and has previously...

Aviva has digitised its Add Trust journey for existing individual protection (IP) policies.  The new digital journey is accessible via the insurer's adviser and consumer sites and replaces paperwork with an online...