PMI & Healthcare

FOS Expects 16% More Complaints, Pledges Faster Service and Cost Cuts The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has revealed it expects to receive 16% more complaints than previously thought this financial year and...

Spire Healthcare Group has sold its leasehold hospital Spire Tunbridge Wells to the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for £9.975m. The transaction which includes the sale of the business and assets...

Dissatisfied employees are three times more likely to experience depression and over three times more likely to have suffered burnout, according to the results of a Vitality survey.  And unhappy workers lost...

Circle Health Group has offered to sell its BMI Edgbaston hospital to allay competition concerns about potential private hospital dominance in the region following its merger with BMI Healthcare. The move has...

More than 40 hospitals have been identified by the competition regulator as breaching requirements to provide information on their private health treatments. Each member of the cohort has been given an action...

Health and wellbeing benefits are a key factor in keeping employees happy and on board, according to research from Health Shield Friendly Society.  The research showed that against the backdrop of the...

Spectrum.Life has agreed a strategic partnership with Northern Ireland primary health and urgent care GP provider Duality Healthcare. From April 2024, Duality Healthcare memberships, which start at £6.99 per month, will automatically...

The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped how people work, leading to significant changes in global workforce movements bringing opportunities and challenges to the international private medical insurance sector.  Trends include the rise...

Health assessment provider Bluecrest Wellness has appointed Dr Martin Thornton as chief medical officer. Dr Thornton (pictured) will lead the clinical oversight of Bluecrest's health assessments, and the subsequent health advice given...

Events and conferences in the insurance sector certainly feel different to the way they did years ago. And women who have plied their trade in the protection and health sectors for decades...