The protection and health insurance industry needs to ensure the benefits of private medical insurance (PMI) policies support the pressures being placed on the NHS, warns Claire Ginnelly, vice chairwoman of the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (amii), during COVER’s Health and Wellbeing 360 broadcast.
The private sector has always worked alongside the NHS sector, and PMI was designed to complement the services provided by the NHS. However, the UK has now found itself in a two-tier system where the NHS is below the private sector, as opposed to the two running alongside each other, because services via the NHS are now "proving to be very difficult" for some people to access, Ginnelly commented. "It's no coincidence that the demand for PMI is increasing at the same time that the NHS is seen to be not providing the service that it ought to be providing," she noted. The private sect...
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