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Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) raised £6.5bn for the Treasury between April 2023 and January 2024 compared to £5.9bn in the same period of the previous year  according to latest HM Revenue &...

UK businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people from falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the government’s new occupational health tsar. Black,...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has praised insurers for improving propositions to offer new health and wellbeing benefits and widening policy definitions to cover more customers. In its Consumer Duty implementation: good...

The Association of Medical Insurers (AMII) has added Switch Health, PSG, and Healthwell as intermediary members. Jack Chandler, CEO at Switch Health, said: "As we join AMII, we look forward to gaining...

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has launched a competency diagnostic tool to identify key areas of training needs to ensure adviser compliance with Consumer Duty. Proficiency+ Consumer Duty was developed in collaboration...

Mercer is bringing health and protection insurers together for a second session with the aim of improving clarity and reporting of environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials in the sector. Last year...

Private healthcare providers sent a record 10.2 million invoices to insurers through Healthcode’s online clearing service in 2023. Earlier this month, Fiona Booth, the company's head of external affairs and stakeholder engagement,...

The government has given financial and health sector regulators an April deadline to put forward their strategies for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their sectors. It told the Financial Conduct...

SIP Medical Family Office has appointed Tammy Sykes as account manager and Diana Chernetska as client advisor. But the Swiss-owned international health insurance intermediary and medical concierge company which established their UK...

Dramatically changing demographics of private health insurance (PMI) consumers have meant guided care is increasingly resonating with new customers while a market is opening up for a third way between full-fat insurance...