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Friends Life's protection team will be raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support by taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on 30 June.

Citing a trend to global mobility, Allianz Worldwide Care has launched a UK healthcare plan allowing treatment either in or outside the country.

Specialist healthcare insurance adviser Healthcare Partners (HCPL) has acquired intermediary Health Connections Direct (HCD).

Mortgage and insurance network First Complete has selected Avelo to provide its distribution systems.

The broadened membership of direct-to-consumer Benenden Healthcare will provide choice, but its non-intermediated offering can cause confusion for adviser clients, a PMI consultancy firm has said.

Workplaces must keep pace with changing services and the growing older generation, Carers UK has said.

Managing financial pressures while also meeting the needs of an older population will be the NHS' biggest challenge over the next decade, its leaders have said.

Intermediaries have called for more clarification from providers on gender-priced rates.

The NHS confederation are "deeply concerned" about the distress today's industrial action will cause patients.

Canada Life Group Insurance has added an additional Best Doctors service as part of its Group Income Protection (GIP) and Group Critical Illness (GCI) products.