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Healthcare firm HealthHero has acquired French company Qare, a telehealth firm backed by European healthtech venture builder Kamet Ventures. This latest acquisition ensures HealthHero now covers 22m lives and is on track...

The Women and Equalities Committee has called on Public Health England to use a ‘Health at Every Size’ (HAES) approach over use of Body Mass Index to determine a person’s healthy weight....

Silvercloud has opened its ‘Space from Covid’ digital wellbeing programme up to everyone across the UK for free. Alongside the launch of its Nurture your normal campaign, the digital mental health platform’s service...

New research from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has drawn a clear link between firms offering health and wellbeing benefits to staff and boosting productivity. The research reveals three in five (60%)...

The Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM) has re-elected Loh Guat Lan as it president. The current group managing director/CEO of Hong Leong Assurance is supported by Raymond Lew, CEO & president...

Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW) has announced a new proposition aimed at tackling the protection gap across the UK. To help close the £2.4trn protection shortfall in the UK identified in the Swiss...

Protection brokerage Lifecover.com and specialist lending group Loans Warehouse have entered into a new strategic partnership that sees Lifecover.com become the exclusive life insurance partner for Loans Warehouse, providing protection advice for...

Jim Galbraith, the CEO of mutual life and investments organisation Scottish Friendly, has passed away. Paying tribute to Galbraith in a statement released today, the group said he had been at the...

LV= has been accused by an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) of not properly consulting members over the life insurer’s sale to private equity firm Bain Capital. In December the group announced its...

Thirteen healthcare organisations are calling on the government to follow through on its 2018 promise to strip the General Medical Council (GMC) of its power to appeal decisions made by the Medical...