PMI & Healthcare

Bupa saw significant growth in membership numbers, revenue and profits across the group in the first half of 2025, but UK profitability slipped as higher claims, adviser commission and investment took hold....

  Cancer has long been a central concern for the health and protection industry. Today, the urgency to rethink how we support people affected by cancer is growing. With more people living...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) have raised concerns about a proposal put forward by Lord Kinnock for a tax hike on private healthcare. The...

Axa Health has hired Jordan Ayrey as SME distribution director from Bupa where he was head of consumer intermediary. He will join Axa Health in November and will lead SME distribution, driving...

The most common service occupational health providers deliver typically costs as much as £200 per employee and can often cost much more, according to government research. The data from the Department for...

Removing the VAT exemption on private healthcare would be "madness" adding to the tax burden on employers and causing individuals and UK plc alike to think long and hard about whether they...

Lord Kinnock is calling for the government to remove the exemption on VAT on private healthcare, while calls have also been made to introduce a windfall tax on these services. The former...

Aon Cayman has appointed Geoff Thompson as vice president, employee benefits, with Thompson moving to the Caribbean after leaving Vitality. Thompson (pictured centre picking up a Health & Protection Award in 2021...

HCML has appointed Jill Pritchard chief commercial officer. Pritchard (pictured) joins from Nuffield Health where she was hospitals commercial director. Prior to this she was a director at Vitality at Work. HCML...

A third of UK workers do not use their workplace health benefits at all and when they do many find them hard to access, according to research from Simplyhealth. Its survey of...