Perfect Health Cash Plans has launched a new product range aimed at the self-employed and the small business community.

The number of people in the UK living with lung cancer will have doubled by 2040 from around 65,000 in 2010 to around 137,000 and the number of women living with lung cancer will rise 35 times faster than in men, Macmillan Cancer Support has warned.

Over half of NHS Direct staff could be made redundant by the end of the year, health union Unison has warned.

Paycare has added some new benefits to its 4work voluntary healthcare cash plan.

Unresolved complaints within the NHS are on the increase with a 50% rise in cases where the NHS didn't acknowledge it had made mistakes, the parliamentary and health service ombudsman has said.

Today's Protection industry is largely unrecognisable to that of a decade or so years ago, and yet some habits appear to die hard, says Nick Aumonier.

F&TRC Protection Forum has compiled a matrix of key issues, simplifying where each provider stand to aid intermediaries during the countdown to G-Day.

LifeSearch processed £1,719,351 of business in October, a record sales month, the adviser said.

Avelo has launched a dedicated G-day Focus Centre on its Exchange Portal to help advisers understand changes to providers' products being planned in response to the Gender Directive.

LV= will now switch its protection business to gender neutral rates on 10 December 2012, and is extending its ‘G Day Guarantee' to ensure all applications received before this date are processed on gender specific rates.