The fit note is failing to reduce employee sickness absence and may take five years to become fully integrated, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has revealed.

Andrew Dilnot has branded suggestions that the government could delay moves to tackle long-term care reforms until 2025 as "unacceptable".

Simplyhealth has produced guidance for employers about the tax implications of providing health benefits to staff.

Introducing gender-neutral rates will result in premium hikes for life insurance and critical illness (CI), HM Treasury has warned.

Jelf has warned that the private health insurance and employee benefits sector will be "no place for the faint hearted" next year.

A new atlas of the NHS has been produced highlighting variations in coverage of 71 different treatment areas across the country.

Doctors have called on the Competition Commission (CC) to expand the private healthcare market study to include the operations of private medical insurance (PMI).

Britain will be facing a bill of more than £15bn a year to diagnose and treat cancer in ten years time, new research has suggested.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have warned that insurers could be "shooting themselves in the foot" by changing the way they request medical evidence from GPs.

Health insurers have applauded the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) decision to refer the operation of the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission (CC).