“The ones that I like are the ones that are offered by both Aviva and by HSBC which is an annual health MOT."
Alan Lakey
Annual health MOTs, provided as part of added value services to insurance products, really come into their own in preventing customers from developing cancers with low survival rates, according to Alan Lakey, director of CIExpert.
Lakey cited the example of his own father who thought he only had a ‘smokers cough’ but instead was suffering with throat cancer.
The urgency an importance of early screening and detection was echoed by Perci Health CEO Kelly McCabe who highlighted this as the single biggest opportunity to save lives.
Lakey was speaking to Health & Protection following a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study showing that while the number of people surviving cancer has improved hugely in the past 50 years, progress remains uneven with some cancers with the worst survival rates falling further behind.
