Private hospitals face challenges as income from PMI continues to slide
Difficult in the near-term but opportunities will re-emerge, experts say
- Care outside hospitals 'a massive opportunity' for private sector
- Bupa: private cancer costs to rise by 65%
- Private patients 'will jump queue' if NHS reforms go ahead
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Exclusive: Aviva reveals income protection claims paid statistics
Provider still has concerns over lack of market-wide methodology
LV= announces CI and IP claims data -
Working overtime linked to depression in middle-aged office workers
Lifestyle factors and job status could also be to blame
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Sesame Bankhall pledges ‘exciting’ developments in protection in 2012
Network also says mortgage applications rose in 2011
Number of advisers focusing on protection... -
Government urged to recognise financial safety net provided by group income protection
Trade body GRiD continues dialogue with Government advisers
Government sickness absence review: Insurers...
News
- Cash-strapped parents warned not to cut vital protection cover as...
- Eight out ten incapacity benefit claimants 'fit to work'
- Brits in the dark about company sick pay
- Sex 'more taboo' than life cover
- Proposed reforms ‘distracting’ NHS from making essential £20bn savings
- IP claims stats debate back on agenda as Wiltshire reveals 2011...
- Hospital group Nuffield makes latest acquisition in fitness centre...
- Women at heightened cervical cancer risk as they forego potentially...
- Welfare reform: benefits cap could be derailed by House of Lords...
- UK expats 'happiest in Spain'
- Abta-style insurance scheme under consideration in wake of breast...
- Royal College of Nursing withdraws support for NHS reform amid private...
HEALTH INSURANCE AWARDS 2011: RESULTS
Pictures from the night of the year
Reader Poll
Will the use of mobile apps take off among financial advisers?
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"The future of reassurance could affect you and your market" Peter Le Beau
The Health & Protection Book 2012
Key contacts, product comparison tables and analysis - it's all here
"What if a P60 was developed to show not only earnings but also State and employer benefit provision?" Mark Jones of LV
Cash Plans/Dental
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Benenden and Engage launch cash plan for 66+ market
Single plans and joint plans are available with three levels of cover
- Benefit strategies crucial in 2012 amid widespread employee...
- Simplyhealth buys Denplan from AXA
Group Risk
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Eight out ten incapacity benefit claimants 'fit to work'
Government claims progress is being made amid heated debate over...
- Brits in the dark about company sick pay
- Unum: We need to tackle perverse incentives in IP
Life/Critical Illness
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Cash-strapped parents warned not to cut vital protection cover as household budgets feel the pinch
Parents look to make whatever savings they can as cost of raising...
- Sex 'more taboo' than life cover
- Openwork to launch protection app
PMI
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Proposed reforms ‘distracting’ NHS from making essential £20bn savings
Health Select Committee: multi-billion pound efficiency target at risk...
- Hospital group Nuffield makes latest acquisition in fitness centre...
- Women at heightened cervical cancer risk as they forego potentially...
"Our industry favourite, tripartite cooperation, is much easier to achieve through face-to-face interaction" Marcia Reid
The HI Profile: Denplan MD Steve Gates
Health Insurance editor David Sawers meets Denplan boss Steve Gates
"Why, as an industry, do some PMI providers run an NCD system which is there really to serve only the insurer?" Jane Willcox of WPA
Product Reviews
MediCare International: International PMI range
MediCare International
MediCare International has introduced two changes to its International range of iPMI plans. Customers can now choose one of four voluntary excesses:A £500 (or equivalent in US $ or €) per claim...
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