Cancer related deaths could be ‘effectively eliminated' except in late old age by 2050 if the current trends in treatment and prevention continue, a report from UCL has found.
The protection industry has responded to the ABI's best practice guidelines on critical illness definitions.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has updated its guidelines on how critical illness (CI) policies should be described and explained to consumers, in a move it hopes will ultimately lead to fewer declined claims.
Ross Campbell writes about the challenges posed by increased diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer and the potential implications for critical illness (CI) policies.
IFA Compliance has announced that it will now make CIExpert available to all adviser firms who are customers.
Two reports from the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) have shown that there is a major shortage of NHS doctors and nurses in stroke care.
CIExpert has given its verdict on Old Mutual Wealth's critical illness (CI) changes including conditions new to CI.
Old Mutual Wealth has expanded its critical illness (CI) plan ‘Protect' to 65 conditions and cover for all types of heart attack, vascular disease and extended cover for strokes.
CIExpert has announced enhancements including the addition of four past providers to the database, meaning advisers can analyse 40 providers with over 250 policies when re-broking an critical illness existing policy.
More than a thousand people will be diagnosed with cancer everyday in the UK in December 2016 pushing the NHS to 'the limit', according to analysis from Macmillan Cancer Support.