PMI & Healthcare

The Conservative government's cash injection for the NHS, while welcome, does not go far enough to address the service's staffing crisis, according to independent charity the King's Fund. Yesterday's Autumn Budget speech...

The chancellor's freezing of inheritance tax will contribute to more and more people being caught out by 'stealth' taxes over the next five years. Autumn Budget documents reveal chancellor Rishi Sunak's freezing...

Government spending on healthcare is set to increase by £30bn per year by the end of the Parliament. Delivering his Budget speech this afternoon, chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed that while spending on...

The reduction or removal of insurance premium tax (IPT) from health insurance products and tax breaks for employers supporting staff are top of advisers' wish list ahead of the Budget today. Reports...

Increasing personalisation in the design of health insurance products risks leaving some customers out in the cold, according to consultancy PwC. The firm's Insurance Banana Skins 2021 report highlights issues associated with...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has cut its gender pay gap over the last year but reported an ethnicity pay gap as high as 25% by one measure. The figures show men...

In the first edition Alfie Jaques, client support manager at Hooray Health & Protection, speaks to Health & Protection about how he got his start in the sector, why the pandemic proved...

New figures from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) reveal that in the first half of 2021 people self-funding hospital-based private treatment made up a third (32.9%) of all private admissions for...

Aviva has appointed Martin Strobel as non executive director. Strobel also becomes a member of the insurer's nomination and governance committee. He was most recently senior independent director of RSA Insurance and...

William Russell has paid out almost US $156,000 in Covid related claims across the globe. The international insurer revealed it paid out $155,793.29 on 54 related claims in 26 countries across all...