Politics

The health insurance sector needs joined-up short term and long term thinking from all government departments around improving the health and wellbeing of people in the UK. This is according to Katie...

Pessimism over the prospects of swingeing tax cuts in the chancellor's Spring Budget including tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI) have proven prescient. Earlier today, ahead of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Spring...

While advisers want tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI), they think there is zero chance of it happening in today's Spring Budget. Ahead of the chancellor's address to Parliament this afternoon,...

Funding alone will not be enough to significantly decrease the NHS waiting lists, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).  In its pre-election briefing, titled The past and future of NHS...

South African president Cyryl Ramaphosa will soon sign the country's National Health Insurance (NHI) bill into law. The bill which was passed by both the National Assembly and the National Council of...

Restoring access to NHS services will take almost a decade while accessing treatment more quickly is the biggest driver for Brits accessing private healthcare, according to a report from the Institute for...

Our review of 2023 concludes with Q4, during which the FCA revealed concerns about how insurers were addressing terminal illness benefits attached to life insurance policies, the third annual Health & Protection...

In 2023 Health & Protection analysed every corner of the individual and workplace health and protection markets. Here are the 10 most read articles analysing and examining the key issues and industry...

Continuing our review of 2023 with Q3 during which Health & Protection returned to the Middle East, Advo's Sue Smith retired, government launched a consultation on PMI tax breaks, Aviva apologised to...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the next Budget will take place on 6 March. Hunt made the announcement as he commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility to prepare an economic and fiscal...