Compliance & Regulation

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is backing calls for long Covid to be classed as a disability as new research reveals long Covid sufferers are being discriminated against due to the condition....

National regulations are making it harder for smaller firms to expand their business into more international private medical insurance (IPMI) markets. In addressing delegates at the Health Compass Transforming the Transaction in...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated a Chelmsford alcohol and drug addiction service inadequate and placed it in special measures, after investigators found shortfalls in measures to ensure patient safety due...

The Scottish government is extending free dental healthcare to all young people. The government says the amendments to regulations which cover the cost of NHS dental care will mean around 600,000 young...

The Medical Protection Society (MPS) has criticised government proposals to stop the General Medical Council (GMC) investigating doctors’ fitness to practice on health grounds. The concerns feature in MPS's response to to...

A digital health insurance product has been included in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) sandbox’s latest intake. The regulator said it accepted 13 of the 58 applications it received for its seventh...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated the Priory Group's Burton Park hospital inadequate and placed it in special measures for having poor leadership and compromising patient safety. The CQC inspected the...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has ruled that a Poole-based dialysis treatment provider requires safety improvements. The regulator carried out an inspection of Renal Services in March following a Covid outbreak in...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been forced to delay its highly controversial mass collection of NHS patient data in England for two months. The programme, which was due...

Four in 10 clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people are ignoring official government guidance and continuing to shield to guard against contracting Covid. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that...