Compliance & Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is making the most of data and intelligence as a means to find out which financial advisers are more likely to deliver poor advice, the regulator has...

In July, the government published its response to its consultation document, 'Health is everyone's business'. When the consultation was first published, we were disappointed to see it was close to silent on the...

Abu Dhabi's department of health (DoH) has clarified that Golden visa applicants not currently employed in the emirate must ensure they have valid health insurance when there. The clarifications from Abu Dhabi's...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury (HMT) will be consulting this month on tighter rules for the appointed representative (AR) regime. The regulator also revealed that it plans to publish...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) saw it’s workplace benefits spend including healthcare and protection cover soar by almost £1m in the last year. In its annual report the regulator said its benefits...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) spent more than £1,000 per case in the last financial year and revealed its backlog in cases grew to more than 90,000 as the Covid pandemic hit...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated two Staffordshire mental health hospitals as inadequate for the second time in six months. The CQC inspected John Munroe Hospital, a 57-bed hospital for men...

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...