Pru Health has been rated as the insurer most willing to get involved in building up intermediaries' businesses in a survey by the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries.
Axa PPP has re-launched its Premier Plus medical insurance plan to cover any drugs used to treat cancer, regardless of whether they are licensed.
Personal care in Scotland is free only where such care falls within a precise legal definition, which some local authorities find difficult to understand and charge unnecessarily as a result, according to Alison Bowes at the University of Sterling.