Bupa is rebating £125m to its UK health insurance customers following the temporary disruption to some medical treatments last year as are result of the pandemic. The rebate equates to roughly one...
Read moreThe NHS has warned that waiting lists could swell to “unprecedented levels” over the next year as a direct results of the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the NHS Confederation Danny Mortimer...
Read moreWPA has recorded a twelvefold increase in usage of its health app in the year to February. As at 28 Feb 2021, there had been 268,652 WPA Health logins since the app...
Read moreAXA Global Healthcare is expanding its health and wellbeing offer to bring quick access to a fully qualified psychologist for members in need of mental health support. Called ‘Mind Health’, the service can...
Read moreAviva has unveiled enhancements to its suite of wellbeing services for individual, SME and large corporate private medical insurance (PMI) customers, available on new and renewing business from the start of this...
Read moreVirtual care is the next growth opportunity across the healthcare space and can expect to grow in the US by over 40 per cent a year for the next five years, according...
Read moreA new “global health” directorate has been set up in Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office in a bid to deal with the current pandemic and reduce risks posed in the future....
Read moreAviva underlined its commitment to focusing on the UK, Ireland and Canada this week by confirming it is to sell its French business for £3.2bn. Aviva France is being sold to Aéma...
Read moreAlmost half of people with potential cancer symptoms did not speak to their GP during the first wave of the pandemic, a survey suggests. There are now growing concerns that a flood...
Read moreHealthcare institutions have experienced an alarming rate of data attacks and theft over the past year, researchers have found. Phishing was reported by 44% of organisations, ransomware by 39% and data theft...
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