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Health insurance : Hot topics

In "Hot topics", Ian Youngman, Private Healthcare UK's health insurance writer, examines some of the key issues that affect health insurance coverage and premiums.

Few insurers use social media properly Social media presents an opportunity that many insurers are intermediaries are not exploiting and are ignoring changing customer needs.
New Financial Conduct Authority is not a product approver April sees insurance regulation changing from one regulator to three. For insurance companies and brokers, the regulator that controls what they do and how they do it is the Financial Conduct Authority.
New kinds of international health insurance needed For decades, the standard answer to Brits going overseas to work, live or retire has been You need an international health insurance policy.
Will retailers sell business health insurance? The news that Walmart in the US is considering selling health insurance to small businesses is a warning.
Solving the problem of income protection insurance Having been ripped off for £ billions by banks on payment protection insurance, consumers are naturally wary of buying income protection insurance as they get the two confused.
Making health and life insurance easy to buy There has been much talk about simple health and life insurance products. It may be easy to get information or even get a quote but it is not always easy to complete the sale.
Pop-up dental clinics Denmark has brought us great television series, plus excellent books and films in recent years. Now it offers an idea that may work here - pop-up dental clinics.
Can hospitals save private health insurance? Traditional private medical insurance is in a mess. The latest figures show that for more than a decade, the number of people buying and renewing cover are falling.
Does the cancer tail wag the PMI dog? It is good news for customers who get cancer, that several major health insurers have extended the cover they offer, plus adding a range of services to help them.
Private treatment overseas is suddenly fashionable While many British people have been going overseas for dental and medical treatment in recent years, the private medical insurance market has taken a dim view of allowing people to go overseas.
Be afraid - be very afraid Unless you are an avid reader of legal and insurance technical pages, you will have missed a new draft from financial regulators on product intervention.
Strip down the product for lean mean times Calls for simpler and more understandable health insurance products
Can health insurers help revive the high street? Struggling towns and cities across England are being handed the chance to breathe new life into their ailing high streets. Mary Portas has launched a competition to choose 12 towns to become Portas Pilots, with the winners benefiting from a share of £1 million to help turn around their unloved and unused high streets.
Rehabilitation cover In the last few years we have had to endure well-meaning lectures from politicians about how we should become more healthy, fitter and even happier.
Who should control care, the customer or the insurer? The NHS is moving, at least in the political rhetoric, to a situation where the patient will be able to choose which GP to use, which hospital to use, and which consultant to use.

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