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Who runs a hospital or surgery does not matter to 62% of the public, provided that everyone has access to healthcare, a survey has found.

AXA PPP International has launched a new Pan Africa Plan covering both individuals and SMEs based in Kenya and Tanzania, offering the choice of treatment across Africa.

Employees with high levels of stress have almost double the amount of absenteeism and more than twice the amount of Presenteeism, with 53% blaming stress levels on inadequate staffing.

Discovery has released its results for the year ending June 2014, showing a pre-tax operating profit of £39.2m earned by its UK businesses PruProtect and PruHealth.

Over three-quarters (77%) of staff in the UK could not afford to meet their living costs if their income stopped tomorrow, research has warned.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has called for the Money Advice Service (MAS) to widen its remit from generic advice to helping people "understand products" and "choosing a pension or a mortgage".

Some 64% of people who have moved up the property ladder in the past five years and have a bigger mortgage as a result, did not review their life insurance; research finds.

Network Sesame has again come out top as the most complained about advice firm, although numbers of cases against it were down, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service's (FOS) half yearly figures published today.

The first International Insurance Regulators' and Policymakers' Summit in Cardiff has launched in a bid to improve dialogue between UK insurers and international players.

The rate of children dying from cancer has dropped by 22% in the last decade, according to new figures.