PMI

While demand for private health cover may be stabilising overall, ‘very difficult times' are predicted for individual policies. Nicolas Culley finds innovation and customer service are key in fighting the channel's decline.

No longer just an insured benefit, group IP is making waves with a range of additional features and is set to benefit from auto-enrolment and changes to the default retirement age. Nicola Culley finds out why it could be a gold mine for advisers.

Bupa has been the latest to warn about the nearing ‘affordability crunch' in the private medical insurance market as premiums continue to rise. What genuine, clean slate innovation would you like to see in PMI - and how possible will real innovation be?...

My client, a company director of a medium-sized firm, has recently been diagnosed with heart problems due to a virus. He has no cover and providers have now refused to insure him. What other options can he explore?

Wellbeing is at risk under the increasing dominance of negative management styles, a Chartered Management Institute and Simplyhealth report has stated.

Bupa International has launched flexible short-term international private medical insurance (IPMI).

The group PMI market has been a little flat of late. So why not try to dazzle it? That's the consensus view of some providers, as Nicola Culley reports.

The Competition Commission (CC) has published an issues statement as part of its market investigation into privately-funded healthcare services.

There has been a significant increase in broker training of late; Tenet's CII accreditation and Partnership's sell-out, long-term care roadshows. And, it was only January when Amii launched a healthcare exam with the CII. Is the industry seeing a ramp...

NHS waiting times are up by six per cent according to official figures and the experts tell us this will only get worse. Paul Shires looks at the impact on the health insurance sector.