Health

Employers should encourage staff to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing to ensure they are fit to enjoy retirement, and able to work for as long as they like, writes AXA PPP's Nick Jeal.

Alan Lakey discusses why advisers should pay closer attention to the differences in children's cover offered by insurers

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

Gavin Shay, head of partnership development at AXA PPP healthcare, looks at the role healthcare can play in an adviser's portfolio.

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

Cases of lung cancer in women have reached 20,000 a year in the UK for the first time, having increased from 14,200 a year around 20 years ago, Cancer Research UK has found.

Over a third (35%) of those whose work is mainly or solely office based spend less than an hour on physical exercise a week, with 9% doing none, a survey by Age UK and Bupa has found.

The Fit for Work (FfW) service has fully rolled-out across Wales and is also active in much of England.

Gavin Shay, head of partnership development at AXA PPP healthcare, looks at how advisers feel about the current state of the PMI market.

Double-digit growth in the self pay healthcare sector is coming at the expense of private medical insurance, a report has found.