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One in five people have turned to private healthcare because they cannot access the treatment they urgently need on the NHS, according to research from charity Engage Britain. The survey of 4,000...

Spire Healthcare has seen a boom in self-pay patients during the first half of 2021, but private medical insurance (PMI) treatment growth is expected to remain sluggish. The hospital network added that...

Advice firms Aceso Health & Group Risk and Mattioli Woods have joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) as new members. The pair joined in the last month and follow...

Health solutions provider Simplyhealth has appointed Duane Lawrence and Martin Stead as non-executive directors. Lawrence, a health tech leader with a 30 plus career across both large and small organisations worldwide, started...

New powers that would enable the FCA to move faster to remove regulatory permissions no longer used by financial services firms should serve as a reminder to advisers to ensure their regulatory...

Medical Screening Solutions, a provider of medical evidence collection services, has stressed that is unaffected by the current shortage of blood test tubes. Late last month, the British Medical Association warned doctors...

Handl Group's insurer-focused rehabilitation business Corporé is to make digital mental health tool SilverCloud available to the general insurance market. Corporé will use the digital mental health treatment platform to manage the...

US customer-owned health insurer Health Care Service Corporation has appointed Kassie Maroney as chief actuary. Maroney, who will lead the  HCSC teams focused on actuarial pricing for products, underwriting and actuarial planning...

Willis Towers Watson has partnered with Applied Systems Europe to support real-time pricing. Willis Towers Watson’s Radar Live partner programme enables insurers and MGAs to develop their rates, underwriting rules and adjustments,...

Advisers are concerned government's expected increase to National Insurance could lead cash strapped families  to reconsider paying for health or protection cover. Later today, the Prime Minister is expected to confirm a...