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Routine medical screens are an essential part of maintaining optimal health year after year rather than, as many people do, only heading to the local GP after a problem arises. While the...

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 has launched and is now open for adviser entries, including a new category for networks and distributor services. Health & Protection would also like to...

A Northern Ireland-based adviser has laid down the gauntlet to insurance leaders to tackle the "massive" problem emerging from oversaturation of the private healthcare market and lack of hospital capacity across the...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has rejected calls from smaller financial firms for it to intervene in the professional indemnity insurance (PII) market. The regulator dismissed pleas from two of its engagement...

Aviva has seen a 25% increase in the number of children and young people seeking support from its mental health pathway through Aviva’s group healthcare schemes in 2023 compared to 2022. The...

The Consumer Duty will not be applied retrospectively to complaints received by it and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised. The regulator repeated its assertion about...

Company leaders are not routinely exchanging their generous private medical insurance cover for whole of workforce solutions. This is according to a panel of adviser experts, who took part in a panel...

Insurers need to proactively ensure second-hand trauma experienced when handling distressing claims is understood across the sector. This is according to a report from the 2022/23 Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) New Generation...

Insurers can guard against greenwashing and even greenhushing by being very specific about their environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and contextualising them effectively. This is according to Jack Roper, group head...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can create opportunities to monitor the mental wellbeing of their workforce, according to Steve Herbert, employee benefits, wellbeing and reward consultant. Kicking off the second day of Health &...