PMI & Healthcare

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...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has raised concerns about the number of GPs available to start picking up the backlog of patients as they begin to return. The regulator noted that over...

NHS dental appointments collapsed to just 2% of their normal levels in the middle of the pandemic last year and barely reached a third of typical volumes by the end of the...

Private healthcare needs to embrace data fluidity if it is to deliver effective treatment in a proactive rather than a reactive way. This is according to Dr Anushka Patchava, deputy chief medical...

Aviva is extending the timeframe of its Covid pledge for private medical insurance (PMI) customers in the UK to the end of 2022 and will increase any payment due by 20%. The...

Bupa has set a target of becoming net zero by the year 2040. The insurer said it has set science-based targets which are aligned to keep global warming to no more than...