PMI & Healthcare

Bupa Global has restructured its senior management with commercial director Patrick Watt leaving the international private medical insurance (IPMI) provider. The insurer has created three regional business units - UK and Africa,...

UK firms have lost a further two working weeks per employee despite a concerted effort to increase the range of health and wellbeing benefits offered to staff, according to research from Vitality....

Aviva has introduced four private medical insurance benefit options for large corporate clients aimed at helping employees bring their true selves to work. The benefit options include an enhanced gender identity benefit,...

The insurance sector needs to challenge social expectations which dictate that men are less likely to take-up paternity leave or take responsibility for the school run. This is according to Penny James,...

There were more than 1.8 million work-related ill health cases in 2021/22, with 30.8 million working days lost in 2021/22, according to the Health and Safety Executive. The data showed the top...

Earlier this year Health & Protection reported on AIG, Guardian and Scottish Widows as examples of insurers singled out for praise by advisers who have taken a flexible approach to underwriting protection...

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) expects its levy for advisers in the general insurance distribution class, which includes those in the health and protection sectors, to remain at £5.3m in the...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has committed to speaking to staff to turn their feedback into action as it continues to face fallout from its labour dispute this year. It was responding...

GPs in England saw seven million more patients in October and more appointments took place on the same day they were booked compared to the previous month, according to data from NHS...

Simplyhealth will prioritise B-Corp certified companies and other organisations with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) values when handing out contracts. And CEO Sneh Khemka urged the rest of the healthcare and...