PMI

The health secretary has announced plans to fight the top five causes of death.

In their penultimate operational year Primary Care Trusts (PCT) in England increased spend on services commissioned from independent healthcare providers by 10.7%.

InterGlobal has renewed its arrangement with Red24 in the international PMI market.

April UK has signed with LogBuy to offer customers lifestyle benefits.

Competition Commission statistics - as part of its private healthcare market investigation - have shown consultants do not reference insurer guidelines when making patient fee levels.

Personal health budgets to enable patients to have more control over their treatment have been announced by Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb.

Cega, the international claims and emergency medical assistance provider, has been appointed by Aviva UK Health to support its domestic PMI and individual international PMI policyholders overseas.

Allianz Worldwide Care has reported "exceptional" levels of growth during 2012, with a 27% increase in gross written premium (GWP) and a 31% increase in the number of insured lives.

AXA PPP healthcare's membership base grew by 11% in 2012.

COVER reported recently that an insurer system glitch caused the wrong policy documents to be sent to an adviser. Insurer system and computer errors are nothing new, but is it a problem that needs more attention?