Protection

Westfield Health has updated its Westfield Flex Healthcare Plan with new benefits and increased benefit amounts.

Jelf has warned that the private health insurance and employee benefits sector will be "no place for the faint hearted" next year.

A new atlas of the NHS has been produced highlighting variations in coverage of 71 different treatment areas across the country.

Axa, Allianz and Aviva groups are among 15 insurers that Standard & Poors (S&P) have warned face a downgrade in their credit rating.

Doctors have called on the Competition Commission (CC) to expand the private healthcare market study to include the operations of private medical insurance (PMI).

Britain will be facing a bill of more than £15bn a year to diagnose and treat cancer in ten years time, new research has suggested.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have warned that insurers could be "shooting themselves in the foot" by changing the way they request medical evidence from GPs.

Martin Werth, managing director of Ageas Protect is to step down at the end of this year.

Health insurers have applauded the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) decision to refer the operation of the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission (CC).

Jelf Employee Benefits has predicted an upturn in group risk consultations in 2012.