Compliance & Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)has reported a surge in complaints across the health and protection insurance sectors over the first six months of the financial year. Most notably, the FCA received 8,527...

Private health sector activity is 121% up on pre-pandemic levels while the practice of tiering - which sees independent sector provide support to NHS trusts - is "here to stay". This is...

Customers will only benefit when extending matching adjustments (MA) to allow in-payment income protection (IP) liabilities under new Solvency UK rules is made accessible to smaller insurers, "spurring price competition rather than...

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has developed a code of practice for the NHS and private healthcare providers of all sizes. The BSI said the code of practice, the first ever international...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) can take many forms of action against brokers that do not charge fair commissions - but the banning of commissions or brokers is off the table, according...

Government is committing to a new £30m fund to speed up the adoption of technology in the NHS which could include new tools to detect cancer sooner. But the Society of Radiographers...

Leaving the intended beneficiary of a life insurance policy no right to claim is like selling a car without a steering wheel. This is according Ruth Gilbert, partner at Insuring Change, (pictured...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has raised serious concerns about several elements of how insurers are addressing terminal illness benefits attached to life insurance policies. The regulator strongly criticised insurers for the...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) CEO Nikhil Rathi has blamed the “caution” of firms for not providing “good and affordable” financial advice to enough customers. He also highlighted that there needs to be...

It's not just high profile footballers choosing to leave for Saudi Arabia; international private medical insurance (IPMI) advisers too have noticed a large uptake of workers moving to the Kingdom. While IPMI...