I'm 42 female, never bought insurance before. I'm relatively healthy, don't smoke but drinks occasionally. Any recommendations for plans? Particularly looking at critical illness but open to anything.

Hospitalisation and Critical Illness is a must.

I recommend you to get all the basic insurance:

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1. Hospitalisation/integrated shield plan for all hospital expenses.
2. Critical illnesses; take note of those that covers early onset/stage of CI. Some CI policies only cover late stage CI, and you want the CI policies that cover both early and late stages.
3. Death/life insurance. Just get the term plan. I don't recommend whole life.
4. Disability policy
5. Income protection.
6. Accidents policy.

Some of the policies are combined as one.

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And NEVER insurance linked policies, aka ILP from insurance companies.