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Fraud figures up 18% on 2012.

The UK economy is in good health, suggest two major business lobby groups, the CBI and the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

The NHS is to focus resources on adults who are obese and can improve their health by losing even a small amount of weight if they keep it off, according to health watchdog NICE.

Just under 100,000 families benefited from £3.1bn in protection insurance payouts in 2013, according to the ABI.

How can private healthcare providers capitalise on increasing customer demand? Stephen Cook has a few ideas

Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are not a motivational tool for employees and are all about "protecting the risk of a company", says First Group reward and pensions director John Chilman.

Mike Wagg, head of intermediary sales at Simplyhealth notes the huge growth in Cash Plan sales during the recession and asks if growth could be even higher in the good years to come.

The protection industry is not optimistic that the Mortgage Market Review will result in higher volume sales of protection products, according to the Protection Review.

PruHealth with Vitality has launched a Vitality Academy, designed to provide brokers with learning and development support.

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