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The government's impending health reforms will mean the end of free care of all, medical experts have warned.

AXA PPP healthcare has extended fast track booking service to members of its health insurance schemes whose GPs refer them to a specialist without naming a particular person to see for their consultation.

It is clear that medical inflation is having consequences, but what is causing it and what is to be done? Mike Izzard investigates.

Subject access requests and online technology have opened the debate over GP reports. Ian Smart asks if this could remove a perennial insurance bugbear.

Medicash has launched a new corporate health cash plan including unlimited NHS Cover, access to Best Doctors and direct payment of PMI excesses.

Cancer charities have slammed the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (Nice) decision to reject a drug that prolongs the life of prostate cancer suffers for being too expensive.

The coming year promises to be a tough one for the private healthcare sector, according to a new report from analyst Laing and Buisson.

The PIP breast implant furore could prompt the creation of an insurance scheme for cosmetic surgery patients to prevent similar remedial problems in the future.

I do few PMI sales and want to cover my back with a business client. They are a wealthy couple in their 50s and both have had heart attacks. Obviously their PMI cost is high but they are looking at moratorium underwriting to alleviate this. Am I right...

Employee assistance programmes are in the spotlight due to a schizophrenic approach by government. But as Sue Weir points out, they are backed by solid research.