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Chartered financial planner Patrick McIntosh from KMG will head for the South Pole to raise awareness of health issues and the importance of protection.

NHS England has announced eleven centres which will deliver the 100,000 Genomes Project, aimed at improving the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of certain diseases.

Patients who have major surgery are almost twice as likely to survive for two years as those who do not undergo surgery, according to analysis.

Ross Campbell writes about the challenges posed by increased diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer and the potential implications for critical illness (CI) policies.

The number of registered deaths in the UK in 2013 was 576,458, down 13% from the number in 1983, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures for 2013 have revealed.

Labour has promised a £330m cancer treatment fund which will fund drugs, radiotherapy and surgery beyond what the current Cancer Drugs Fund offers, if the party wins the next election.

CIExpert has given its verdict on Old Mutual Wealth's critical illness (CI) changes including conditions new to CI.

NHS England has made available data on surgeons' performance with an increase in the number of surgeons in the data and surgeries covered.

More than a thousand people will be diagnosed with cancer everyday in the UK in December 2016 pushing the NHS to 'the limit', according to analysis from Macmillan Cancer Support.

Patients are waiting more than 30 days to get the results of x-rays and scans interpreted by a radiologist, a report by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has found.