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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...

Doctify has integrated with the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) to collect and share hospital patient feedback. It will support hospitals' compliance with the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) Private Healthcare Market Investigation...

Private medical insurance (PMI) claim volumes rose almost 8% year-on-year from April to June, following growth of almost 7% in the previous three months.  Clearing organisation Healthcode processed 3.2 million invoices for...

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...

Income protection product innovation potentially holds the key to fixing the UK’s broken social care system. This is according to Johnny Timpson following new PM Andy Burnham reiterating his desire to tackling...

As part of Health & Protection’s Guide to PMI for new entrants, Charlie Cousins, founding director, Hooray Health & Protection explores why working with smaller employers is a significant and rewarding opportunity.  ...

Working To Wellbeing is working with BW Consulting to help broaden the reach of its services to more advisers. Barry Waring set up BW Consulting in February after leaving YuLife where his...

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.  ...

There is “significant” opportunity for growth in the UK’s protection market if insurers target underserved new populations, MetLife UK head of individual protection Phil Jeynes has told Health & Protection. This means...