Cash plans

Chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) did not increase the rate of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) as part of her Budget 2025 announcement and the health and protection insurance industries were largely unaffected by...

Sir Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review could not have been clearer and it is a call that has not fallen on deaf ears. The former John Lewis chairman called on UK...

Firms which cancel their regulatory permissions part-way through the year will only be charged pro-rated fees, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing. The regulator has put forward a quarterly pro-rating model...

Dealing with cancer is probably one of the last things on the mind of most young people as they prepare to take on the world, both physically and metaphorically. However, understanding the...

There is a plausible long-term prospect of nobody ever dying from cancer where it becomes a chronic rather than life threatening condition, according to Perci Health co-founder and CEO Kelly McCabe (pictured). McCabe...

Incentives such as tax relief for employer health benefits will be critical to encourage take-up of changes proposed by the Keep Britain Working Review as it enters its secondary stages. However, the...

The Keep Britain Working Review has urged the exploration of pooling mechanisms to help make investing in the workplace health provision (WHP) affordable for SMEs. It likened the process as similar to...

Adopting an overhauled employer-led shared responsibility approach to employee health at work and cutting sickness absence could save up to £18bn a year when fully running, according to the Keep Britain Working...

The chairman of the Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) has called for the introduction of auto enrolment for protection to particularly help support the self-employed population. AFM chairman and Cirencester Friendly CEO...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has put the NHS front and centre as one of her and the nation’s priorities ahead of the Budget later this month. In a speech to set the scene...