Cashplans

WHCA is now Orchard Healthcare, with a new website being launched along with the rebrand of the Worcester based cashplan provider.

Westfield Health has donated £250,000 to the fundraising appeal to build a new helipad at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.

The changes the NHS needs to make over the next five years could see changes to the way cashplans operate, a Simplyhealth white paper has said.

Health Shield saw its premium income rise to £29m in 2014, the highest in the cashplan provider's 138 year history, its annual results have revealed.

Mike Wagg, head of intermediary sales at Simplyhealth notes the huge growth in Cash Plan sales during the recession and asks if growth could be even higher in the good years to come.

Health cash plan provider Medicash has revealed a 56% rise in employer-paid policies during 2013.

Westfield Health has enhanced its health club concession benefit, giving policyholders more choice when choosing gym membership.

Cash plan provider Health Shield has published its claims statistics for the first time, revealing it paid out 97.5% of all claims made during 2013.

Westfield Health's head of intermediary sales, Steve sharrock, explains his bafflement that more advisers are not selling cash plans.

Engage Mutual's David Castling outlines opportunities for a meeting of minds in the cash plan arena.