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IntegraGlobal International Health Plan customers can now use a smartphone app which stores their personal medical records and enables pre-authorisation for treatment and submit claims - wherever they are located.

Universal Provident has revealed a breakdown of its declined private medical insurance (PMI) claims statistics for 2014, with two reasons each accounting for 16% of rejections.

Cigna has appointed Phil Austin as managing director of its healthcare benefits business in the UK.

Aon has launched a health risk forecaster to help companies understand their future health expenditure and control risks.

The Health Insurance Group has found that of 50,000 health MOTs in the workplace last year 17% of the UK workforce had a BMI greater than 30 - defined as ‘clinically obese' by the World Health Organisation.

Bupa UK has seen 25% growth in underlying profit compared to 2013, their annual results have revealed.

The share of healthcare outsourced by the NHS to independent providers has increased from 5% in 2009 to 7% in 2014, according to LaingBuisson's Healthcare Market Review.

Chase Templeton has reported an increase in the number of brokers and intermediaries wanting to sell their businesses.

ActiveQuote will provide life insurance comparison services to customers of uSwitch.

Over 98% of patients are satisfied with the overall experience provided by their doctor, an analysis of doctors' appraisals has found.