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Government vows to tackle "hidden" NHS waits 
Author: Pru Health 
Hi-Mag 17/11/2011 
Currently, 90.7% of people receive inpatient treatment within the 18 week target. However, of the 2.6 million people on waiting lists, 250,000 have waited for longer than this time, of which just over 100,000 have waited for longer than six months and 20,000 for more than a year. 
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Variation across the country also exists. The King's Fund reported last month that 45 trusts – over a quarter – admitted less than 90% per cent of their patients within 18 weeks, more than double the number of trusts failing the 18-week target in August 2010. More than 20% of people still waiting for treatment have waited for longer than 18 weeks in the Wirral, Kingston, Wandsworth, Somerset, Sutton & Merton and Richmond & Twickenham. There is also variation across types of treatment. Nationwide, less than 90% of patients are seen within 18 weeks after being referred to trauma & orthopaedics, ENT, oral surgery and neurosurgery. 
 
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Medisave Independent Healthcare Launch new Broker Website! 
Author: Gillian Campbell 
11 April 2011 
Medisave Independent Healthcare, Northern Ireland's leading specialist private medical insurance brokers are pleased to announce the launch of their new website www.medisavepmi.co.uk .......read more 
Gillian Campbell, proprietor of Medisave said " the site was designed with ease of use in mind so that customers looking for information on all aspects of medical insurance could find what they needed quickly and easily. All too often, comparison websites providing health insurance quotes focus only on price and not on the what the policies actually cover, how they work in practice, or what the client is actually getting for the money they pay".  
 
"For those looking at some kind of cover for the very first time, it can be very confusing and we feel it is all about helping a client to understand how PMI works, in the first instance, so that they can be clear about what they expect from this type of insurance, before we even put quotes together for them. The medical insurance market is, unfortunately, not a level playing field and it is very hard to compare 'like for like' when it is a subject you are not familiar with. You can very easily ending up spending money on benefits which you neither want or need or make a mistake by switching to, what looks like a cheaper product but which doesn't work like you thought it would when you come to use it". 
 
"We hope that providing clear information on a site which is easy to use will help visitors find out what they need to know about their personal situation, quickly and in a concise format, so that they can make informed decisions about their current cover or any new cover that they may be about to take out." 
 
"Much as I hate to use the phrase, we are really are a 'one stop shop' providing everything you will ever need to know about healthcare insurance". 
AMII calls for levelling of PMI taxation playing field 
Author: Paul Robertson 
Cover| 21 Mar 2011 | 14:41 
The Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) has called on the Chancellor to remove tax disincentives in the treatment of employer-paid private medical insurance (PMI)......read more 
AMII made the call ahead of this week's budget, saying it could alleviate cost pressures on the National Health Service. 
The previous Labour administration introduced the Employers National Insurance charge on employer-paid private medical insurance. This charge is due to increase to 13.8% from April and comes on top of a 1% increase in Insurance Premium Tax to 6% effective from January 2011. 
 
Employees are taxed on this benefit, as a P11D benefit-in-kind, at their marginal rate of tax. 
AMII noted these tax charges are not applied to other group risk health insurance benefits - such as group protection or employee health screening. 
Andrew Tripp, chairman of AMII, said: "The current tax treatment of employer funded PMI is not only inconsistent with how other forms of group risk insurance are treated, but is also a perfect example of taxation working against the intentions of other Government initiatives," 
"Removing the current tax disincentive for employers who wish to fund private healthcare for their employees, would not only have a positive effect on the public finances, by relieving pressure on over-stretched NHS budgets, but prompt access to treatment will also result in lower welfare costs for the Government." 
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