PMI & Healthcare

Friarsgate Financial Planning has joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) as a new member. Friarsgate was founded in 2019 by Bill Hughes, David Jacobsen and Darren Booth following the...

Financial services firm Sun Life Financial has completed the $85m (£61m) acquisition of US medical intelligence and healthcare navigation provider Pinnacle Care International. Maryland-based PinnacleCare has more than 170 employees and helps...

Virtual GP services have inevitably increased in popularity as lockdown stopped people from seeing their local doctor in person, while insurers have responded to this demand through increased product innovation. But as...

Advisers, brokers, consultants and providers graced the turf at Horsham FC with their football skills last week, battling it out for the inaugural Synchronicity Insurance Cup. The event, organised by Synchronicity Insurance...

Perci Health, an online platform offering people access to support from multidisciplinary cancer teams, has launched with £1.5m of seed funding. The firm, launched by oncology dietician Kelly McCabe and Morgan Fitzsimons,...

Guardian has announced it is offering all its registered advisers and their immediate families, free access to its GP 24/7 service until 31 December 2021. The protection provider added advisers don’t need...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Aston Lark CEO, Peter Blanc, as president for 2022. Blanc is also non-executive chairman of Hastings Insurance Services, the broker arm of Hastings Direct, and...

The opportunity to champion the values of the mutual ethos was one of the key reasons National Friendly's new  CEO, Graham Singleton, has taken on the role permanently. Earlier this week, Health...

Health tech form EQL has partnered with cashplan provider Medicash to launch Phio Engage, a self-care app for people needing musculoskeletal (MSK) treatment. The launch into the health insurance market follows the...

A GP has reported a patient threatened to kill themselves if they weren't bumped up the list for their first jab. The startling claim features in the findings from a survey by...