Compliance & Regulation

More work needs to be done to improve the join between the independent sector and the NHS when it comes to referring patients with cancer. This is according to private sector professionals...

Government's failure to cut insurance premium tax (IPT) on private medical insurance (PMI) was a missed opportunity as HM Revenue & Customs tax receipts data indicate IPT collected reached a total of...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has followed through on a commitment to launch a review into how financial services firms treat customers in vulnerable circumstances. Under the regulator's Consumer Duty, firms should...

DeadHappy has been told to close to new life insurance customers, with its underwriter no longer taking on any new business from the firm. The life insurance company, who last year courted...

A German man has been jailed after he was found to have faked his own death so that he could claim €4m on a series of life insurance policies. The Mirror reports...

The health insurance sector needs joined-up short term and long term thinking from all government departments around improving the health and wellbeing of people in the UK. This is according to Katie...

The Office for Budget Responsibility says it expects rising health-related inactivity to continue weighing on the UK worker participation rate. The revelation features in associated documents to this year's Spring Budget. The...

Pessimism over the prospects of swingeing tax cuts in the chancellor's Spring Budget including tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI) have proven prescient. Earlier today, ahead of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Spring...

While advisers want tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI), they think there is zero chance of it happening in today's Spring Budget. Ahead of the chancellor's address to Parliament this afternoon,...

The potential for the use of artificial intelligence's (AI) in healthcare is huge, but the risk around its use is even greater than in other industry sectors. This is according to Avi...