PMI & Healthcare

Cutting insurance premium tax (IPT) is the key to improving worker inactivity, according to Cara Spinks, head of insurance consulting at actuarial consultancy OAC. Spinks' comments follow latest HMRC tax receipts data...

More meaningful occupational health interventions will be necessary to make government's plan to shift responsibility for issuing fit notes from GPs, towards specialist work and health professionals workable. This is according to...

Joe Cronin, president of International Citizens Insurance speaks to Health & Protection about how he started his own insurance company with clients in more than 200 countries across the globe, the influence...

Johnny Timpson has resigned from the Prime Minister’s Champion Group for Dementia Communities in protest at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) policy. Announcing his decision, Timpson (pictured) highlighted the case of...

Partners& has created three new senior leadership roles as it gears up for the next stage of its growth plan. The internal promotions see Ewan MacDonald appointed CEO – North to lead...

Nearly 25% more working-age adults are expected to be diagnosed with major illness by 2040, according to a report from independent charity the Health Foundation, released today.  That represents an increase of...

Irish insurance company the Voluntary Health Insurance Board (Vhi) is in the process of retiring four of its health plans, to simplify its offerings to consumers.   The four plans to be...

Demand for private medical insurance (PMI) seems to be going only one way as the population adjusts to a 'new normal' in which NHS wait times remain stubbornly high. Insurers are investing...

Employee benefits, wellbeing and reward consultant Steve Herbert (pictured) has launched his own training and writing support company. Known across the pensions and employee benefits industry as well as to HR and...

Reproductive health insurance provider Juniper has entered into partnership with specialist data analytics solutions provider Optalitix.  Juniper aims to address a gap in the health insurance market by providing comprehensive genital insurance,...