The government has given the green light to reforms which will mean insurers, not consumers, have the responsibility to provide all information regarding underwriting risk.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has withdrawn its private medical insurance (PMI) scheme for members to remove a clause that handed all currently held business to its partner Jelf.

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to make ‘substantive changes' to the NHS reforms currently before Parliament.

Defaqto has said it believes short term income protection (IP) products are likely to become the replacement for payment protection insurance (PPI).

With changes afoot in the critical illness market, Owain Thomas asks if its time for the sector to put aside its differences and move forward

The fit note is not reducing absence yet as sickness time off increased to 190 million lost working days at a cost of £17bn to employers last year, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said.

The British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) has withdrawn a letter signed by itself and other medical practitioner bodies regarding Bupa's plans for arthroscopic knee surgery.

The nation's care system will become overwhelmed in the future unless major investment is introduced by the government, according to new research.

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank has applauded the government's first year of welfare reform calling it "an impressive start".

Bupa has hit back at surgeons by denying claims that its medical review process could be "potentially harmful to patients" and said it has consulted with practitioner bodies.