SME

Voting for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 will close this week. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been...

South East Asia is witnessing a surge of interest from globally mobile people and companies with previously unheralded locations benefitting from the region's lifestyle, cost base and tensions across the Middle East....

Aviva is extending its menopause support services to individual and SME private medical insurance (PMI) customers from today. It will now be available to more than 675,000 additional customers and their family...

Marsh has promoted Nick McMenemy to Mercer Marsh Benefits UK leader, subject to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval.  Based in London and reporting to Phil Parkinson, Mercer UK’s president and CEO, McMenemy...

Private medical insurance (PMI) claim volumes rose nearly 7%, year-on-year, in the first quarter of the year, according to Healthcode. The clearing organisation processed and validated 3.1 million invoices during the quarter....

Spending less time with the boss could be key to increasing workplace happiness. This is according to Reward Gateway/Edenred and London School of Economics’ The Happiness Dividend report, published last week, which...

Private hospital groups and clinics increasingly see direct to employer schemes as their biggest opportunity for growth over the next five years. Research from the Independent Healthcare Providers Network’s (IHPN) showed a...

The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) has added JLP Health as an intermediary member. The specialist adviser in private medical insurance and health protection solutions is part of JLP Financial,...

Howden has appointed Rob Brown (pictured) as head of employee benefits, Howden Markets. Brown’s remit will be to lead the development of a clear, scalable market proposition, bringing greater consistency and negotiation...

The Treasury collected a record £9bn of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) receipts in the last financial year, according to HM Revenue and Customs. Furthermore, Inheritance Tax income also hit a fresh high...