PMI

Private medical insurance adviser-consolidator Chase Templeton has confirmed its purchase of Debbie Kleiner-Gaines' Best Health business for an undisclosed sum.

Allianz Worldwide Care has launched into the corporate assistance market with a service developed for business travellers and expat employees of multinational companies.

The impact of Ebola, the general election and private GPs are all likely to be felt in 2015, Jelf Employee benefits has predicted.

Universal Provident is to hold its new business rates for both individual and corporate private medical insurance (PMI) at its upcoming January Review.

Premier Choice Group (PCG), the health and protection intermediary, was called in by Thirteen Group, the North East housing management company to offer health insurance advice and protection products to its employees.

Wayne Pontin, chairman of the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII), has confirmed he will be stepping down in April and has criticised the PMI industry's poor growth in his final speech.

Discovery has acquired the remaining 25% stake in the holding company which owns PruHealth and PruProtect, Prudential Health Holdings.

Spire Healthcare Group and Bupa UK have announced a renewed long-term agreement for six years from April 2015.

Patients with lung cancer diagnosed when they go to hospital as an emergency often had difficulties in seeing their GP, a study has found.

The CQC has begun its first inspections of private hospitals, with two underway and a further six due for inspection this year.