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The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has seen income protection (IP) sales double and private medical insurance (PMI) premium income rise 45%. The network said its “focus on ancillary sales opportunities” had seen PMI annual premium income...

While the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has seen good progress in board diversity and setting targets and insights on neurodiversity, it has noted that the insurance sector is making slower progress...

Broadstone has appointed Richard Pringle as a principal consultant in its employee benefits consulting (EBC) division. Pringle (pictured) has more than 20 years of experience in risk, health and wellbeing consulting, working...

Around 650 advisory firms have accessed a guide aimed at helping them in talking about suicide-related issues with their clients since its 2021 launch. In the autumn of 2021 Health & Protection...

Paradigm Protect, part of Paradigm Mortgage Services, has partnered with technology provider UnderwriteMe. Members of Paradigm Protect will now be able to access UnderwriteMe’s free-to-use Protection Platform, which covers products from eight...

Almost half of those of using private healthcare say that not being able to secure an NHS appointment quickly enough factored into their decision to go private. This is according to Going...

Speculation that Aviva is ripe for a foreign takeover saw shares for the company leap by more than 10% on Friday, but Monday appears to be a much calmer trading day.  Media...

Benefex has acquired digital employee benefits solutions provider Cloud8 and its Beam at WorkTM platform. Cloud8 is a white-labelled software as-a-service (SaaS) workplace benefits provider. Its team will join Benefex as part...

Healix has announced the introduction of mental health services to support business travellers.   As part of Healix’s emergency services offering, clients now have around the clock telephone access to confidential mental...

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has developed a code of practice for the NHS and private healthcare providers of all sizes. The BSI said the code of practice, the first ever international...