PMI/Private Medical Insurance

The NHS Future Forum is to conduct a second stage of its listening exercise following a request by the government to assess its revised proposals.

The NHS is in good financial health after producing a surplus of £1.5bn over the last financial year but it faces a stiff challenge over the coming years.

With private medical insurance a stretch for many firms, Lee Andre makes the case for introducing cash plans into the workplace.

The NHS has revealed 9,000 more patients in England had waited more than six weeks for key diagnostic tests compared to the same time last year.

More NHS services are set to be run by private companies after it was revealed that nine more primary care trusts (PCTs) are planning or are in the process of putting entire care pathways out to tender.

Now Health International has launched an on-line quote facility for SME businesses which it claimed is the first in the market.

Cancer survivors are at greater risk of recurrence because they are not physically active enough, Macmillan Cancer Support has said.

AXA PPP healthcare has extended its workplace wellbeing offer to larger sized employers, with a rebate if health improvements are not achieved.

The small to medium enterprise (SME) market for private medical insurance (PMI) is unsustainable, PruHealth has said.

Groupama has seen its healthcare business revenues grow over the first six months of the year and further discussed its decision, announced this week, to sell the business.