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Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) receipts reached £6.65bn for the first eight months of 2024-25, taking it ahead of receipts from Tobacco Tax for the year so far. If that trend continues it...

Inheritance Tax (IHT) revenues hit £5.7bn in the eight months to the end of November – up £600m or roughly 10.5% compared to the same period last year, according to the latest...

Millions of Africans are falling deeper into poverty due to high health costs, according to The World Health Organization (WHO), which has urged countries across the continent to reduce the financial strains...

Advisers predict increasing demand for private medical insurance (PMI), income protection (IP) and life insurance in 2025, according to a survey by The Exeter.  Income protection saw the most positive sentiment with...

Cirencester Friendly has become the eighth insurer to achieve the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) Claims Charter status this year. Earlier in the year the PDG slashed its latest Claims Charter cohort from...

Government's expected failure to ensure everyone who needs to see a dentist can see one comes as no surprise, as more and more patients go private. Late last month a report from...

Private medical insurance (PMI) claims are on course for another record year and may break the £5bn barrier in 2024, a rise of more than 11%, according to Healthcode. Data from Healthcode...

More than two million NHS diagnostic imaging tests were carried out in a single month for the first time, but the number of patients waiting has still increased, according to analysis by...

Emergenzz Financial Services managing partner and CEO Sheun Oke is already brainstorming for her third book which will support advisers new to the industry, after launching her second title, The Book on...

William Russell is reducing international private medical insurance (IPMI) product base premiums in Africa, Europe and some of South East Asia, but increasing rates in the Far East, Oceania, South America and...