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Attitudes across the health and protection insurance sector are changing for the better, but more needs to be done. While some of the sector's youngest professionals have war stories about being asked...

Legal & General’s UK protection new business fell sharply in the first six months of 2023 as the insurer said it expected the softer housing market and cost of living to continue...

The number of of people joining the ranks of economically inactive due to long term sickness has shot back up to hit a new record. While May data from the Office for...

In an exclusive wide-ranging interview, Erik Bleekrode, head of insurance at KPMG China and Asia Pacific, tells Health & Protection about how international talent is returning to Hong Kong, whether comparisons to...

Georgia d'Esterre remains "very passionate" about being a woman in protection following her recent adjacent move to the world of mortgages. Last week West Brom Building Society revealed d’Esterre (pictured) had joined...

The science and research sector is the most likely to offer private medical insurance (PMI) to its new employees, while the community and social care sector is the least likely, according to...

HCA Healthcare UK is to open HCA UK Outpatients Battersea & Nine Elms outpatient centre next month. The £2m investment will provide access to a range of outpatient care. Appointments will be...

Five in 10 UK businesses are using or plan to adopt increased homeworking permanently - but improving staff wellbeing is not the main motivator for doing so. This is according to data...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared UnitedHealth’s proposed £1.2bn purchase of EMIS following an in-depth investigation into competition concerns. EMIS is a supplier of data management systems to the...

Health data is a key part of the ONS’s work; from tracking the pandemic to charting life expectancy, measuring mortality to counting carers and disability – it allows us to build an...