The Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) and Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) will launch a new health insurance examination for brokers and advisors in April.

The exam syllabus will cover seven key areas including: structure of the UK healthcare insurance market, product types and applying risk assessment, rating and underwriting considerations, and respective roles and responsibilities of intermediaries and healthcare insurers.

Steve Jenkins, director – financial services markets at the CII, said: “We are very pleased to have been given the opportunity to work with AMII to develop this new examination.

“The new qualification has been created to provide a benchmark for standards of professionalism and expertise that will meet both the current and future needs of the PMI sector.”

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