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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...

The number of referrals for secondary mental health services increased by more than 34% in the period between March 2021 and the start of this year. Statistics from NHS England released today...

Paying individuals to go the gym could be the key to changing their health for the long term. This is according to Cass Sunstein the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard ,...

April International has appointed Daniel Woods as business development manager. Woods joins from Berwick Devoil Healthcare where he was a senior client manager. Before that he held senior sales positions at both...

Health test provider Medichecks has launched a GP appointment service in collaboration with Doctor Care Anywhere. The deal sees customers of Medichecks’ range of at home blood tests have the option to...

Oxygen, a US-based financial technology company, has announced that it will be temporarily suspending its banking services, as it switches gears towards health insurance.  Oxygen said: "We are stepping into a new...

Increasing an individual's daily number of steps to 7,000 a day could cut their risk of cancer and diabetes by 34%. This is according to Adrian Gore, founder of Discovery Vitality, who...

NHS hospital costs could be cut by as much as £15 billion per year if half of the UK’s inactive adult population started walking 5,000 steps once a week, while those with...

AIG Life has revealed a surge in usage of its free virtual healthcare service, Smart Health, with the service being used more than 100,000 times since its launch in August 2019. A...

Aviva says that it has maintained its focus on call waiting and has assured that further improvements are still on track for the second quarter of the year.  The reassurance came on...