PMI & Healthcare

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to survey 600 smaller firms to check how they are preparing for implementing the Consumer Duty. The regulator also conceded it may have not adequately explained...

The UK needs to hold to a national debate as to how it will meet the long term healthcare demands posed by an ever ageing population, according to Alex Perry, CEO of...

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves would not be drawn on whether she would introduce tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI) at next month's Budget. Responding to a question at the Association of...

Bupa Insurance chief executive Alex Perry has called for tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI), arguing that the industry is "extremely heavily taxed" and that the tax regime is limiting demand...

Building partnerships enabling investment in prevention of ill health and access to services aimed at improving the health, productivity of the UK population is one of the central commitments of the Association...

Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly for strike action with a 72-hour work stoppage already in the works for next month. The British Medical Association (BMA) said it was the largest...

Sales director Robert Smith is leaving Freedom Health Insurance after almost two decades with the insurer. In a statement the insurer said Smith (pictured) was leaving after 19 years at the company...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH) has acquired Visibly Financial Services which trades as Visibly Health and, separately, a book of business controlled by self-employed consultant Gill Nicholson. These latest deals follow the November...

  Recent events have changed the workplace forever. Employees have new expectations of their employers to proactively support their health and wellbeing. And boardrooms now view health and wellbeing as a priority....

Employees who suffer from a debilitating illness or injury need fast treatment. Without it, their working lives deteriorate and become less productive and eventually they may even have to leave employment. But...