PMI & Healthcare

The Exeter, the health and protection insurer, has extended its enhanced cash benefit for private medical insurance (PMI) members. The benefit allows members to claim up to £500 per night for any...

A majority of healthcare professionals in Britain say factors other than patients’ best interests play a role in their day-to-day medical decision-making, research shows. A new survey of medical professionals for JMW...

Women – both those in work and those out of work – are reporting higher stress levels than their male counterparts, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the...

Bupa’s acquisition of CS Healthcare’s private medical insurance (PMI) business has received final regulatory approval for it to go ahead on 1 January 2021. The Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) published its approval,...

Countries across Europe should be braced for a huge rise in the number of individuals “in the grip of severe mental illness” in the coming months as the impact of the coronavirus...

Health & Protection editor David Sawers talks to independent consultant Elliott Hurst about some of the industry highs and lows of 2020 - and looks ahead to what might lie in store...

The proportion of adults who are worried about financial matters as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is falling – but there are fears that the number of people developing long-term serious...

Around one in seven people in Britain are now unable to access the NHS for dental treatment – and there are growing fears that record numbers of mouth cancer cases are going...

Google's takeover of Fitbit has been approved by the European Commission, following a four-month investigation. The search giant bought the fitness tracking company for $2.1bn (£1.5bn) last November but the EU warned...

Patients who pay privately for cardiac surgery are 20% less likely to die or develop major complications such as reintervention or stroke than those whose care is state/taxpayer-funded, researchers say. Academic from...