PMI & Healthcare

Cancer patients across the country are more worried than ever about their chances of survival as the pandemic causes more delays and cancellations to diagnostic tests, surgery and other procedures, a charity...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is to launch a mental health e-learning module for advisers and frontline staff with the charity Rightsteps in early 2021. The module is being designed to...

There was more good news for Britain’s businesses and their health and protection advisers this week when latest research showed that the City’s recruitment market is defying widespread predictions of prolonged downturn....

Protection and private medical insurance medical advisers looking to support SME businesses and grow the overall health benefits market – and in turn UK plc – have seen some potential avenues of...

A new suite of toolkits developed in collaboration with Public Health England (PHE) has been launched by an industry body in a bid to support employers’ efforts to improve the health and...

Mercer announced today the appointment of Ashok Gupta as chair of its UK board. Gupta will also chair the organisation’s Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee. Gupta succeeds Jane Barker, CBE, who...

One in five people in Britain say that the wider societal and financial impact of the pandemic has encouraged them to take better care of their health and lifestyle, research shows. A...

The grim prospect of surge in untreated cervical cancer cases is the latest bad news to be prompted by the disruption to healthcare systems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Women across the...

Half of UK patients over 55 now prefer digital tools instead of in-person medical consultations, research suggests. The report, carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Mobiquity, also found more than half...

Nuffield Health, the independent sector hospital and health provider, has launched a series of free ‘emotional wellbeing’ classes. The move follows a YouGov poll, commissioned by Nuffield, which shows over half (52%)...