Compliance & Regulation

Updated: The accused and four co-defendants have since been acquitted of the allegations in 2023.   An Indian man has been arrested after trying to stage his own death using a cobra...

The Conservative government's cash injection for the NHS, while welcome, does not go far enough to address the service's staffing crisis, according to independent charity the King's Fund. Yesterday's Autumn Budget speech...

Government spending on healthcare is set to increase by £30bn per year by the end of the Parliament. Delivering his Budget speech this afternoon, chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed that while spending on...

The reduction or removal of insurance premium tax (IPT) from health insurance products and tax breaks for employers supporting staff are top of advisers' wish list ahead of the Budget today. Reports...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has required LV= to improve communications with members as it granted permission for the mutual to proceed with a court hearing related to its proposed sale to...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has cut its gender pay gap over the last year but reported an ethnicity pay gap as high as 25% by one measure. The figures show men...

Half of appointed representative (AR) permission applications made by firms using the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) gateway pilot did not proceed, the regulator has revealed. It also disclosed that HM Treasury will...

St Mary’s Hospital in Warrington has implemented an action plan after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ordered it to make improvements following an inspection this summer. The CQC carried out an unannounced...

Charles Randell has asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to start the process to appoint his successor as chairman of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). Randell, who...

Prospect Hospice in Swindon has been rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after making "significant" improvements and recovering from enforcement action and warning notices just two years ago. The...