PMI

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.

The introduction of auto-enrolment is being used by companies to review their employee benefits package or introduce new benefits, a survey has found.

The health insurance and protection comparison site ActiveQuote has been declared the 6th fastest growing company in Wales, and fastest in Cardiff.

Patients diagnosed with cancer are sometimes keeping their diagnosis from their families, research from Bupa has found.

Jelf Employee benefits has launched a new auto-enrolment package which includes healthcare and group risk.