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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has worked to ensure that pharmaceutical company Aspen’s commitments to cut prices for life-saving cancer medicines can be enforced in the UK following Brexit. The European...

The Health Compass international private medical insurance (IPMI) product sourcing system has launched. The platform caters for brokers with individual clients requiring IPMI cover. It provides intermediaries fully licensed access to the...

The pandemic changed the way health services are delivered - perhaps forever. Insurers have noted increased demand for digital and virtual GP services and have responded in kind by designing or evolving...

More insured patients were treated by private hospitals during the first quarter of 2022 than compared with the same period before the pandemic, according to new billing activity data from Healthcode. The...

Advisers have one week to get their entries in for this year's Health & Protection Awards. To enter all advisers need to do is tell us in 1,000 words or less how...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has announced additional help for insurance professionals to tackle stress. Throughout this National Stress Awareness Month, the institute is encouraging its members to access, at no additional...

Protection cover ranks lowest among the things Brits would sacrifice to pay for essentials as the cost of living crisis intensifies, according to research from MetLife UK. The provider commissioned Censuswide to...

Cigna has retracted its previous statement about continuing to support international private medical insurance (IPMI) customers in Russia and will not confirm if it will provide treatment to its expat members in...

St James's Place divisional director Tony Müdd has accused some non-advised protection broker firms of playing on customer confusion around the difference between advised and non-advised sales. Müdd also slammed the Financial...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) consumer duty does not give any "wriggle room" for firms who think loaded premiums are acceptable, according to Tony Müdd, divisional director at St James' Place. Müdd...