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Medical evidence used to decide claimants' eligibility for state benefits is frequently ‘seriously inaccurate', the Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB) has revealed.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) should consider healthcare trusts as the most transparent form of corporate private medical insurance (PMI), specialists have said.

The government has suffered a significant setback in its welfare reform agenda after the House of Lords defeated three of the coalition's main proposals.

Bupa has hit back at claims by doctors that its open referrals process is ‘flawed on several levels' and limits patient choice.

Deloitte has warned that 2012 will be another tough year for the healthcare sector after the number of businesses going into administration grew sharply last year.

Medical insurance brokers have applauded moves by private medical insurance (PMI) providers to remove the limits on cancer coverage for many standard polices.

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added protection specialist, Engage Mutual Assurance, to its protection panel.

The doctors' regulator spends more than a quarter of a million pounds a year on private medical insurance (PMI), it has been revealed.

Businesses risk alienating their staff by not offering a compassionate approach to absence management, new research has found.

Axa PPP has removed all cost and time limits for licensed cancer drug treatment for patients on its standard individual and SME plans.