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Insurers are being praised by advisers for their efforts to support customers suffering with cancer - including one that helped a woman who was forced to have her treatment 2,000 miles away...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has welcomed The Exeter marketing manager Shaun Ware, Aviva marketing manager Rebecca Lowe, and consultant Monica Garcia to its steering group. The trio join existing members...

The Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity (GAIN) has added Aviva as an industry transformer member. By joining Gain, Aviva has pledged to engage, educate, and enable neurodivergent individuals to thrive...

Zurich has engaged with a campaign to create protection products for people suffering with sickle cell and highlighted there are widespread solutions available for carriers, but noted the complexity of the disease...

Sharing NHS data with private companies presents a "remarkable opportunity" to link data with healthcare action but getting buy-in from the public is crucial as they currently do not trust the sector...

A combination of employee assistance programmes (EAPs) and reaching out to local NHS services could play a key role in supporting the health of staff stuck on waiting lists. This is according...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned adverts from two lead generators offering life insurance quotes for being misleading and operating outside their trade. The regulator has put the lead generator sector...

Almost 700,000 people have been suffering with long Covid symptoms for at least two years, according to latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures for 2 January show...

Axa Health has told chancellor Jeremy Hunt he should implement a tax cut for employers providing private medical insurance (PMI) and wellbeing services in next month's Budget. The submission was in response...

The government will need to be clear what minimum service levels mean in sectors such as healthcare to make its rules during industrial action workable, an employment lawyer has warned. Yesterday the...