Health Insurance newsletter: September 2007
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Welcome to the September edition of the Health Insurance News Briefing from Private Healthcare UK. This monthly e-newsletter keeps you up to date on company and product news in the health insurance sector.
This month's Health Insurance News
Westfield Health has combined surgery cover with a health cash plan in a groundbreaking move to help employers cut sickness absence. Surgery Choices is now available as an add on benefit to...
Westfield Health has continued its initiative to provide free life-saving equipment to the community. The company has donated nine defibrillator machines to a variety of organisations across...
Westfield Health has given its support to improve cancer care facilities in Sheffield. The company has donated more than £25,000 to Weston Park Hospital to provide a 'Look Good, Feel...
Three in five Brits mistakenly think an E111 will cover treatment in Europe (Source: GFK surveyed 2,000 British adults in August 2007) More than half of those Brits heading off for the ski...
The majority of people prefer to contact insurers by phone, says research from Standard Life Healthcare. The survey of 1,021 adults found that 59% prefer to use the phone, followed by the web...
Thousands of Britons emigrate every year, citing better jobs, more favourable weather and large ex-pat communities as their motives for the move. As young families struggle to keep their heads...
Thousands of travellers are to call a centre in Copenhagen, where insurer IHI has an international office for travel and health insurances. International Health Insurance Denmark (IHI...
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Hadenglen Home Finance Plc (Hadenglen) £133,000, and its chief executive £49,000, for inadequate systems and controls when recommending...
Ramsay Healthcare, the largest private hospitals group in Australia, has bought the UK's fourth largest private hospitals operator Capio UK for £193 million, it has been confirmed. The...
Darlene Kaitlin of insurance intermediary Essential Health says; "Critical illness insurance is a policy that helps you to afford the medical treatment for a life threatening...
HSBC is re-writing the protection rule book with the launch of its LifeChoices plan, a one-stop-shop product that incorporates four key elements of protection and strips down the underwriting process...
Nobody likes to consider that their health will deteriorate as they get older and the likelihood they may need long term care facilities. However, making sensible provision while you still can is only...
Next week Engage Mutual Assurance launches a new TV campaign to profile its Whole of Life product. The Harrogate based mutual has used the voice of actress Sarah Parish of Cutting It and Peak...
Thousands of British expats who have moved to France for early retirement could lose their rights to free state healthcare following a change in social security laws. The warning...
International health insurance is still highly valued by expatriates, according to new research from MediCare International. 70 per cent of respondents in its recent survey said that...
Zurich has launched two new products for the mortgage and personal protection markets. Decreasing Mortgage Cover and Level Protection Plan - offer a number of combinations of cover, including....
US based international insurer Aetna has entered into an agreement to acquire Goodhealth Worldwide, a leading managing general underwriter for international private medical insurance that offers....
PruHealth, the innovative private medical insurer has partnered with leading supermarket Sainsburys in a move that could see PruHealth customers rewarded for buying fresh fruit and vegetables at...
Disabled holidaymakers face so many problems travelling abroad that many do not bother taking a holiday, disability charity Leonard Cheshire warns in a new report " Wish You Were Here ...
Sainsbury's Travel Insurance is urging holidaymakers to stand up to those travel agents still using bullying tactics to sell insurance. Its alarming new research estimates that in the past 12 months...