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NHS hospital costs could be cut by as much as £15 billion per year if half of the UK’s inactive adult population started walking 5,000 steps once a week, while those with...

AIG Life has revealed a surge in usage of its free virtual healthcare service, Smart Health, with the service being used more than 100,000 times since its launch in August 2019. A...

Aviva says that it has maintained its focus on call waiting and has assured that further improvements are still on track for the second quarter of the year.  The reassurance came on...

Brokers expect increase in PMI customer interest Three quarters of health insurance advisers expect customer interest in private healthcare plans to increase further this year. This is according to a survey of...

The Office for Budget Responsibility says it expects rising health-related inactivity to continue weighing on the UK worker participation rate. The revelation features in associated documents to this year's Spring Budget. The...

Pessimism over the prospects of swingeing tax cuts in the chancellor's Spring Budget including tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI) have proven prescient. Earlier today, ahead of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Spring...

While advisers want tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI), they think there is zero chance of it happening in today's Spring Budget. Ahead of the chancellor's address to Parliament this afternoon,...

Trawick International has appointed Global Benefits Group alumni Claire Hargreaves and Darren Fletcher as managing director and head of sales and distribution respectively of its accident and health division in the UK....

Bupa has launched the silver version of Bupa Well+, a ‘whole of workforce’ health and wellbeing subscription service, which allows large companies to give their employees digital health and wellbeing support via...

There was a 7% increase in private hospital admissions in the first three quarters of 2023 when compared to the same period in 2022, according to data released by the Private Healthcare...