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Why these advisers avoid medical underwriting

Professional Adviser | 15 Dec 2011 | 08:00

Could advisers find themselves in non-disclosure disputes with insurers if they help clients with their annuity paperwork?

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Bupa pressurises private hospital sector

Bupa is to cut ties to individual hospitals within hospital groups, in an attack on the sector’s business model.

Cover | 02 Nov 2011 | 12:02
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Doctors to ballot for strike over NHS pensions changes

GPs are set to be balloted on what could become co-ordinated, NHS-wide industrial action against the Government's pension reforms, it has been reported.

Cover | 06 Jul 2011 | 15:26

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Desperate to quit banking? Become a tribal healer

Thomas Heathfield chose perhaps the most extreme route out of high street bank consultancy ever heard of.

IFAonline | 01 Jul 2011 | 14:30
Healthcare buyouts are a shot in the industry's arm

Medical Care Direct launches small scheme healthcare trusts

Medical Care Direct (MCD). has launched ‘Health Link’, a healthcare trust fund for businesses and organisations with as few as 100 employees.

Cover | 19 Jan 2011 | 15:27
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PMI medical cost vs care

Dissatisfaction over certain private medical insurers’ financial arrangements with consultants has spilled into the political arena. Edward Murray examines what lies behind the headlines

Cover | 11 Jan 2011 | 16:21
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FIPO welcomes OFT's private healthcare investigation

The Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations (FIPO) has welcomed the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) decision to launch a study of the private healthcare market.

Cover | 17 Dec 2010 | 09:56
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PMI providers questioned by House of Lords

A dispute between medical consultants and Private Medical Insurers has escalated in the House of Lords.

Cover | 04 Nov 2010 | 16:25
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Crossing frontiers

If you are not selling international PMI then your competitors are. However, as Edward Murray explains, this is a rewarding market

Cover | 11 Oct 2010 | 11:04
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Chronic pain costing Europe billions

The European Parliament has faced a call to arms over the treatment of chronic pain.

Cover | 29 Sep 2010 | 14:20
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Half of health insurance complaints upheld

Half of private medical and dental insurance complaints received by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) have been upheld in the first quarter of the year.

Cover | 29 Jul 2010 | 16:22
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Medicals Direct splashes out on expansion

Medicals Direct has splashed out on three businesses from rival Company Health Group to continue its ambitious growth strategy.

Cover | 17 Mar 2010 | 10:06
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ALC unveils global medical agreement; ALC World

ALC Health has launched a partnership with HTH Worldwide providing access for its members to doctors and hospitals in 180 countries.

Cover | 08 Mar 2010 | 15:00

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