PMI & Healthcare

Customer complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) about protection and private medical insurance (PMI) represent a very small portion of its caseload. But the latest data from the FOS revealed the...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has announced a series of changes aimed at transforming the way it operates to improve its service for consumers and firms. This includes a new registration stage...

Rising prices and increased competition are troubling advisers, but Mark Dunne hears a warning for insurers to avoid complacency.   Clients are starting to consider self-insuring and downgrading their coverage as international...

Pricing out customers from accessing weight-loss treatments could widen existing health inequalities across the country. This is according to advisers Health & Protection spoke to following analysis from the King’s Fund, released...

Axa Health has launched digital outpatient services in cardiology, urology and neurology. This expands the insurer’s existing digital services, which include specialist-led support for digestive health, dermatology and muscles, bones and joints. These conditions represent a significant...

Swiss Re has appointed Damien Bartlett as head of its life and health market unit for UK and Ireland and Middle East and Africa.  The appointment will take effect 1 November 2026. ...

Denplan, part of The Simplyhealth Group, has appointed Nick Tait (pictured) to the newly created role of managing director.  At the start of the year, Simplyhealth revealed it would be creating two...

Narrowly missing out on his declared goal of running the five-minute mile changed Vitality parent Discovery founder Adrian Gore forever. At a launch event for his new book The Four Principles last...

Cost, inadequate reimbursement and confusion about healthcare systems are preventing expats from accessing care - even when they have health insurance. More than half (53%) the 6,400 expats surveyed across more than...

The King’s Fund has found there were 14.3 million obese adults in England in 2024 - 7.2 million more than if rates had stayed the same as 1993. As a result the...