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The workforce could lose millions of female employees unless more is done to support women with menstrual and menopausal health symptoms, according to research from Simplyhealth and the Chartered Institute for Personnel...

Advisers operating in the protection and health insurance sector are set for a second consecutive year with no additional levy for the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). In its latest update the...

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is calling for the life insurance industry to changes to policies and processes to combat economic abuse and empower victim-survivors. This includes the ability to cancel or replace...

Reassured has signed a referral agreement to support Beagle Street customers who are unable to take out the insurer’s own life cover. Beagle Street offers life and critical illness cover direct to...

A third of consumers do not believe that insurers will pay their protection claim despite claims paid stats being published, according to the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI).  The disconnect is happening...

Despite Conservative government promises, progress on tackling 'shameful inequalities' in NHS waiting lists has been slow, according to The King's Fund. "People from more deprived areas are more likely to have long...

Specialist health and life insurance intermediary Assured Futures has been renamed Howden Life and Health. Founded in 1995 and acquired by Howden in 2020, Assured Futures specialises in private medical insurance (PMI),...

There is likely to be consolidation of insurers in the Hong Kong international private medical insurance (IPMI) market, according to Pacific Prime. And to stay competitive, traditional insurers need to evolve by...

Rates of personal wellbeing in the UK are lower than pre-pandemic levels for the year up to March 2023, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).  At the start of the...

The Conservative government has pledged to implement a long-term NHS workforce plan and to cut NHS waiting lists, as part of the King’s Speech. It also confirmed proposals to reform welfare would...