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Government intends to deliver an "ambitious" deregulatory package later this autumn to "unleash the potential" of the UK financial services sector as part of its plan to drive growth across the UK...

Advisers are dubious over whether government commitments to improve access to GPs will prove successful amid soaring demand for virtual GP services from customers. The commitments feature in health and social care...

The government's reversal of its National Insurance Contributions (NICs) hike to fund the health and social care levy will hit the UK's coffers to the tune of more than £65bn over the...

Health and Social Care Secretary Thérèse Coffey has committed to maximising use of the private health sector to expand NHS capacity as part of a package of measures in the government's latest...

Cigna is withdrawing from the UK domestic private medical insurance (PMI) and healthcare trusts market, Health & Protection can reveal. At present the insurer offers group PMI schemes and healthcare trust administration...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by 15% in the first quarter of the 2022-23 financial year, according to data from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The latest data showed 171...

  In Bupa's latest workplace Health and Wellbeing Academy for small businesses Piers Linney, award winning entrepreneur and former Dragons' Den investor, was joined by a panel of experts to discuss ways...

Allianz Partners has appointed Tomas Kunzmann as CEO. Kunzmann (pictured) took up his post on 1 July and succeeds Sirma Boshnakova, who was appointed board member of Allianz SE earlier this year....

Santé Group has unveiled MySanté - its new employee benefits app which is set to launch in November. At a product launch event at the City of London club yesterday, Paul Nugent,...

Canadian broker Westland Insurance has acquired Vancouver-based employee benefits adviser Montridge Advisory Group. The acquisition was announced alongside the purchase of Ontario-based P&C brokerage BST Insurance. Jamie Lyons, president & chief operating...