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Voting for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 will close this week. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been...

South East Asia is witnessing a surge of interest from globally mobile people and companies with previously unheralded locations benefitting from the region's lifestyle, cost base and tensions across the Middle East....

The majority of UK adults are worried about being diagnosed with dementia and the costs of paying for social care in later life. This is according to consumer research carried out by...

Primis has appointed Daniel Fullen, Simon Lovell, Liam Blackburn and Ronnie Marshall as regional sales managers for the North, Midlands, South East and Northern Ireland, respectively. Reporting to Neil Hoare, sales director...

Reassured has reached a signposting agreement with Farewill. The deal sees Reassured signpost customers to the UK digital will writing service. Farewill offers a digital-first service that enables people to create a...

Perci Health has appointed Katie Crook-Davies as director of strategic accounts. Crook-Davies (pictured) has more than 15 years’ experience across the UK protection industry. A qualified life actuary, with experience at Swiss...

Aviva is extending its menopause support services to individual and SME private medical insurance (PMI) customers from today. It will now be available to more than 675,000 additional customers and their family...

Marsh has promoted Nick McMenemy to Mercer Marsh Benefits UK leader, subject to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval.  Based in London and reporting to Phil Parkinson, Mercer UK’s president and CEO, McMenemy...

Private medical insurance (PMI) claim volumes rose nearly 7%, year-on-year, in the first quarter of the year, according to Healthcode. The clearing organisation processed and validated 3.1 million invoices during the quarter....

Spire Healthcare has launched a genetic test produced by Genomics to predict an individual's genetic risk of developing four common diseases - including two cancers - before symptoms appear. Health Insights, offered...