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The Spire Healthcare takeover saga took another turn today when the chairman quit the private hospital and clinic operator to join Anglian Water. Sir Ian Cheshire will step down by the end...

Perci Health has been added to WTW’s supplier list as a specialist provider of cancer prevention, risk and screening services.  This enables employers to offer their employees access directly to the firm's...

Vitality has appointed Adam Murphy (pictured, right) as group chief finance officer.  Murphy will oversee finance functions across all Vitality's international operations including the UK, US, Asia and in our partner markets,...

Healthcare cash plan provider Sovereign Health Care is to expand into the intermediary market. To lead this move, the Bradford-based not-for-profit has appointed Luis Weston as its new head of commercial sales....

Richard Howells is stepping down as managing director of LSL Group’s financial services division, which includes its Primis protection and mortgage network. Howells, who has been MD since February 2024, will be...

Protection and private medical and insurance products have a “vital” role to play in helping maintain improved mortality rates among middle-aged men. This is according to advisers Health & Protection spoke to...

Omni Protect has become the distributor service for directly authorised firms in the UK to offer Beagle Street's newly launched intermediary protection proposition to advisers. The agreement follows Beagle Street’s entry into...

For many globally mobile people and organisations the world appears to have become a more confusing, risky and potentially dangerous place over the last year with geopolitical movements expanding into full-on wars....

Newmedica has launched an online appointment booking service for cataract patients, powered by Healthcode’s ICE scheduling technology.  Self-funded patients can now search more than 30 Newmedica locations for the closest clinic or...

As part of Health & Protection's Guide to PMI for new entrants, Emily Mae Collins, policy adviser for health and protection at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), looks into the increasingly...