SME

Aviva has sold its Aviva Poland business to Allianz for £2.1bn, as it continues its process of offloading overseas operations to focus on its core UK, Ireland and Canada businesses. The deal...

How popular are directional-care plans?  These plans are becoming increasingly popular. There are no official figures, but I imagine they will account for between a quarter and a third of all new...

It’s not just Hollywood that has an awards season. That time is upon us in the health and protection industry too. The anticipation of glory, which can go alongside the fear of...

Amazon is entering the medical care and patient advice market in the United States, with a 24/7 service that offers in-app chat or video conference diagnosis, home visits and wellbeing services. Amazon...

Bupa is rebating £125m to its UK health insurance customers following the temporary disruption to some medical treatments last year as are result of the pandemic. The rebate equates to roughly one...

The NHS has warned that waiting lists could swell to “unprecedented levels” over the next year as a direct results of the coronavirus pandemic.  The head of the NHS Confederation Danny Mortimer...

WPA has recorded a twelvefold increase in usage of its health app in the year to February. As at 28 Feb 2021, there had been 268,652 WPA Health logins since the app...

International Women’s Day remains as relevant now as it was over 100 years ago. Even before the pandemic began, reports from the World Economic Forum suggested it would take 99 years for the gender gap to close. While...

Bupa Global & UK will appoint Carlos Jaureguizar as its new CEO from April 1, replacing David Hynam in this role.  Jaureguizar is currently the general manager of Bupa’s Chilean operations, having...

Aviva has unveiled enhancements to its suite of wellbeing services for individual, SME and large corporate private medical insurance (PMI) customers, available on new and renewing business from the start of this...