PMI/Private Medical Insurance

APRIL UK has appointed Daren Kittle to the newly created role of commercial director.

Allianz Worldwide Care has partnered with Equatorial Guinea Insurance Company (EGICO) to create group health insurance plans for companies employing both domestic and international workers in the country.

Vitality has extended its partnership with Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill for another three years.

Freedom Health Insurance completed the establishment of its own insurer, Freedom Health Cell within Advent Insurance PCC Limited in March 2016.

Xerox HR Services' Simon Crewe says the increase to Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) can instead be viewed as an opportunity for clients to future proof their healthcare benefits.

Bupa has urged the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to act now amid fears that customers will continue to be ‘penalised' by HCA charging higher prices for private healthcare.

The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that remedies including the sale of HCA hospitals would not be 'proportionate' to improve competition in the London private health market.

Intermediaries can now offer AXA PPP healthcare's virtual private GP service Doctor@Hand to SME and individual clients.

Private medical insurance experts have described the rise in IPT as ‘counter-productive' to the take-up of corporate and individual policies.

Westfield Health has invested in 3rings - the elderly care tech start-up showcased by serial entrepreneur Steve Purdham on Dragons' Den.