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PMI
Improvements to the NHS' cancer services have lost momentum in the last two years, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned.
12 March 2015
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Employee Benefits
Aon has launched a health risk forecaster to help companies understand their future health expenditure and control risks.
12 March 2015
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Critical Illness
Friends Life has launched ‘Global Treatment' with Best Doctors as an add-on to its protection policies offering policyholders the option of going abroad for serious illness treatment.
12 March 2015
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Income Protection
Teresa Fritz is to join the executive committee of the Income Protection Task Force from 1 April 2015.
12 March 2015
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Group Protection
The Financial Inclusion Commission (FIC) has called for a minister for financial health to lead on financial inclusion and capability.
11 March 2015
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Employee Benefits
One in ten UK employers are offering discounted or free programmes to help employees stop smoking, research for Britain's Healthiest Company has found.
11 March 2015
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2 min read
Insurer
LV= has seen its group operating profit for 2014 decrease to £86m, down from £105m in 2013.
11 March 2015
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2 min read
Long Term Care
Symponia has described the UK-wide under-funding of homecare services for older people as ‘shameful' following the launch of a major report into the sector.
11 March 2015
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Income Protection
Pink will now ask advisers wishing to join the network to provide either proof of their own income protection (IP) policy or their reasons for not having any.
11 March 2015
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2 min read
Employee Benefits
The Health Insurance Group has found that of 50,000 health MOTs in the workplace last year 17% of the UK workforce had a BMI greater than 30 - defined as ‘clinically obese' by the World Health Organisation.
10 March 2015
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1 min read
