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Patients with breast cancer are faced with £1,000 of out-of-pocket costs each year through no fault of their own, it has been claimed. A study suggests that chemotherapy for breast cancer costs...

The new owner of Priory Group – the mental health services provider best known for treating celebrities including supermodel Kate Moss and footballer Paul Gascoigne – has said it is creating Europe’s...

Paul Avis is stepping down from his role as strategic propositions director of protection at Canada Life Group Insurance and leaving the provider after 11 years. Avis (pictured) leaves Canada Life by...

Women – both those in work and those out of work – are reporting higher stress levels than their male counterparts, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the...

Countries across Europe should be braced for a huge rise in the number of individuals “in the grip of severe mental illness” in the coming months as the impact of the coronavirus...

Health & Protection editor David Sawers talks to independent consultant Elliott Hurst about some of the industry highs and lows of 2020 - and looks ahead to what might lie in store...

Around one in seven people in Britain are now unable to access the NHS for dental treatment – and there are growing fears that record numbers of mouth cancer cases are going...

The Government has published latest details of private providers of coronavirus testing. The move comes with the Christmas period fast approaching and as more people look for ways to help them keep...

Early estimates of the number of individuals who suffer from so-called “long-Covid” have been released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), suggesting that it could have impacted more than 150,000 people....

GRiD, the trade body for the group risk and protection industry, has urged  employers to do encourage their staff to make use of their existing employee benefits in the run up to...