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The Risk of an Influenza Pandemic
13th May 2008
In our last article we mentioned plans to protect the income of GP's and when, they need to suspend their usual practice in order to combat an influenza pandemic. In this article we are going to look...
General Practitioners' Income Protected in Case of Pandemic
13th May 2008
NHS Employers and the BMA's General Practitioners Committee (GPC) have come to an agreement concerning the nature of the service and resources offered by the General Medical Services (GMS) - that's GP...
The Causes of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
12th May 2008
The most common cause of CHD is a build up of fatty tissue along the inside walls of the arteries, most relevantly the arteries leading to and from the heart (the coronary arteries). Medically this...
Friends Provident Improve Customer Satisfaction for Critical Illness Cover
11th May 2008
The FTSE 100 Index insurance and pensions company Friends Provident has stated that the number of claims for critical illness that have been declined on the basis of non-disclosure have decline by one...
Conference for Benchmark Definitions for Critical Illness (CI)
9th May 2008
Canadian company, Munich Re-Insurance, launched the World CI Conference in Toronto at the end of April in the hopes of establishing benchmark definitions for CI within insurance policies. The...
Benefits of Critical Illness Cover
9th May 2008
Critical illness cover for British citizens makes a lot of sense. If we are happy with the service given to us by the NHS then all we really need to worry about is loss of income resulting from a...
EU Initiative Mitigates Credit Crunch for European Insurers
8th May 2008
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has released a new report predicting the relative safety of European insurance companies despite the value-decline of US sub-prime asset and the more general disruption...
Breast Cancer
8th May 2008
With over 40,000 cases diagnosed every year, as many as 1 in 9 women in the UK will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives, making it the most common form of cancer within the UK and the...
UK Faces Growing Threat of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
8th May 2008
Having examined nearly 30,000 people infected with TB in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the last seven years, the Health Protection Agency found a 2.3% rise (from 5.6% to 7.9%) in the...
Welsh Teachers Face Redundancy
7th May 2008
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) has said that up to 300 teachers in Wales may be face redundancy across ninety schools over the next few months. This is...
