Cash plans

Employees are now more engaged in their organisation’s activities, goals and health and wellbeing benefits – perhaps as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic – research suggests. A snapshot – and a...

Gallagher has announced it is to acquire North West-based broker The Bollington Wilson Group for an undisclosed sum. Bollington, which was founded in 1973 as a local community broker, has since grown...

Medicash, cash plan provider, has appointed two new non-executive directors to its board. Jonathan Brown and Jean Ellis assume the roles in a year in which Medicash marks its 150th anniversary since it...

Medicash, the Liverpool-based cash plan provider which has over 300,000 health cover policyholders across the UK, celebrates its 150th anniversary today. The organisation, which was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool...

MAXIS Global Benefits Network has struck a deal with ICAS World, the employee assistance programme (EAP) provider, to be its global partner of counselling support and assistance. As part of the partnership,...

‘Holistic digital’ health insurance ‘without geographical restrictions’ will be on the market in 2021, its developers claim. Spanish global insurance provider Further has merged with UK-based digital platform Trustedoctor to create Further...

A cancer doctor in the US has written off almost $650,000 of unpaid medical bills because his patients have been  unable to pay because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Omar Atiq had...

The new owner of Priory Group – the mental health services provider best known for treating celebrities including supermodel Kate Moss and footballer Paul Gascoigne – has said it is creating Europe’s...

The Exeter, the health and protection insurer, has extended its enhanced cash benefit for private medical insurance (PMI) members. The benefit allows members to claim up to £500 per night for any...

Women – both those in work and those out of work – are reporting higher stress levels than their male counterparts, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the...