Insider View
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PROVIDER OPINION: A Grand Idea - the Protection P60
20 Jan 2012
What if a P60 was developed to show not only earnings but also State and employer benefit provision?
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Adviser skillsets: Get off your chair, step away from the desk…
19 Jan 2012
Our industry favourite, tripartite cooperation, is much easier to achieve through face-to-face interaction
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PMI Provider Opinion: Looking back to the future - real community rating is back!
06 Jan 2012
Why, as an industry, do some PMI providers run an NCD system which is there really to serve only the insurer?
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Comment: Bupa, BMI and doctors - who really pulls the strings in PMI?
05 Jan 2012
Doctors need a healthy private healthcare market more than global insurers do
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Adviser skillsets: Hunter or farmer? They are both crucial in next year's target planning
29 Dec 2011
The division between salespeople and account managers is not helpful
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Opinion: There is an opportunity to develop high quality products to fill the PPI vaccuum
29 Dec 2011
It would be wrong to ignore what we can learn from PPI and its demise
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Opinion: Changes to the tax regime for protection - implications for advisers
19 Dec 2011
There are changes to the tax regime for protection providers that could have implications for advisers in 2012
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Comment: Private healthcare's infighting is in fact simply a debate that needed to be had
13 Dec 2011
In spite of all the mud-slinging, there is more common ground in the private healthcare and insurance market than you might think
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Comment: Referral and treatment choices - who really knows best?
01 Dec 2011
Who should decide the ideal treatment path and referral route for patients?
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Comment: An untapped resource? Why HR is key to the consumer protection market
23 Nov 2011
It looks very much as though HR is the newest, and possibly most important, best friend to protection cover
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Comment: The argument you never hear about PMI
17 Nov 2011
I’m not sure the elitist argument about private healthcare really holds water
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Comment: Healthcare reform overseas is a bitter pill to swallow too
10 Nov 2011
The UK private healthcare and insurance industry should be thankful for the relative freedoms it enjoys
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Comment: An unhealthy scepticism?
31 Oct 2011
The PruHealth model might seem to make sense but don't expect too many copycats
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Comment: Bupa's Open Referral - did you see it coming?
27 Oct 2011
Bupa needs to improve its communication to brokers
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Comment: In protection, size isn't everything
17 Oct 2011
Consolidation is a complex business