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Westfield Health has updated its Westfield Flex Healthcare Plan with new benefits and increased benefit amounts.

Jelf has warned that the private health insurance and employee benefits sector will be "no place for the faint hearted" next year.

The NHS could save up to £1.7bn a year if hospitals and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) treated more patients in the home, according to a new report.

Fraud is becoming a key target for the health insurance industry as it bids to stem the continued growth in medical inflation.

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The sickness absence review is expected to call for a government funded panel to judge people's ability to work, taking the responsibility away from doctors.

Simplyhealth believes the NHS is crumbling and now is the best chance to change the structure of the country's healthcare system in the last 50 years.

The Permanent Health Company (PHC) has sought to reassure advisers' and quell concerns that its new five year underwriting deal with Axa PPP will eventually result in a takeover.

Westfield Health has reported sales growth of 29% increasing market share to 13.5%, in its annual results for 2010/11.

Axa PPP has taken over all underwriting of Permanent Health Company's private medical insurance (PMI) and dental products.