PMI & Healthcare

A combination of employee assistance programmes (EAPs) and reaching out to local NHS services could play a key role in supporting the health of staff stuck on waiting lists. This is according...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned adverts from two lead generators offering life insurance quotes for being misleading and operating outside their trade. The regulator has put the lead generator sector...

Almost 700,000 people have been suffering with long Covid symptoms for at least two years, according to latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures for 2 January show...

Axa Health has told chancellor Jeremy Hunt he should implement a tax cut for employers providing private medical insurance (PMI) and wellbeing services in next month's Budget. The submission was in response...

The government will need to be clear what minimum service levels mean in sectors such as healthcare to make its rules during industrial action workable, an employment lawyer has warned. Yesterday the...

Unite has written to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) CEO Nikhil Rathi warning of rising staff anger and discontent at the regulator after the union found 87% of members who responded to it...

The NHS is in crisis. A once in a lifetime pandemic has contributed to already vast wait times in England while the breakdown of services and a cost of living crisis has...

Rapid Quote has added National Friendly's My PMI offering to its portal. The product offers four different levels of cover which are structured to help meet more clients' budgets - from out-patient...

The government's dental contract reform (DCR) programme has failed in its objective of improving oral health across England, with fewer patients treated,  reduced access for patients of all types, and lower patient...

The Pandemic Institute (TPI) has unveiled eight research projects assessing the longer-term impact of the Covid pandemic on UK and global health which have been awarded funding following a £225,000 donation by...