Health

Public Health England (PHE) has set out its seven priorities for the next five years to improve public health.

An investigation by Healthwatch England into the health and social care complaints system has led to it being described as 'utterly bewildering and largely ineffective'.

PruProtect's Phil Jeynes says insurers and intermediaries should focus on helping customers understand more about their health.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced that private health hospitals will be awarded ratings from April 2015.

The British public are at their unhealthiest for fifty years, and are doing little to change it, a study by Beneden Health has found.

Dementia caring obligations will cost companies more than £3 billion, a report has found.

NHS hospitals in England dealt with 20,320 admissions for allergies in the 12 months to February 2014; an 8% increase over the previous year.

Half of UK adults are classified as either overweight (31%) or obese (19%) yet a significant proportion believe they are in very good or excellent health, research finds.

Unemployed people looking for work were almost twice as likely as those in employment to have a limiting long-standing illness or disability, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Canada Life Group Insurance has expanded its Best Doctors service offering with the launch of Doctor Online.