Politics

Benefits payable from stand-alone registered group life pension schemes will be exempt from inheritance tax (IHT) changes, the government has clarified. This aligns with the treatment of retirement benefit schemes that provide...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) will undergo a series of significant reforms aimed at returning it to its original purpose of being a “simple, impartial dispute resolution service“. This will include a...

Baroness Nicky Morgan has told Health & Protection she is considering resuming her quest to secure an inquiry on women’s financial resilience in the House of Lords following an unsuccessful attempt last...

Consumer inflation is forecast to hit the Bank of England’s 2% target later this year, the Office for Budget Responsibility believes. After averaging 2.3% in 2026, CPI inflation will stabilise at 2%...

The government has unveiled a national cancer plan which aims to ensure three quarters of people diagnosed with cancer from 2035 onwards are cancer-free or living well after five years.   Under the...

Pensions minister Torsten Bell (pictured) has ruled out auto-enrolment for private medical insurance (PMI). The subject of auto-enrolment for workplace health benefits has been raised following the publication of the Labour government...

The number of people waiting to start NHS treatment in England is estimated to have dropped by around 86,000 to 7.3 million, according to official data. The figure is an estimate as...

Over the last year Health & Protection dug into every corner of the UK and internaitonal individual and workplace health and protection markets. So here’s some of the key analyses examining how...

Cathryn Riley, the former CEO of Norwich Union Healthcare and chairwoman of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), is among a trio of New Year’s Honours recipients from the financial services sector....

Fast pace change and developments have swept through the world of health and protection in 2025 in the UK and internationally. It was a year in which increases to employer’s national insurance...