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Short-stay admissions to care homes are few and far between in winter, despite the capacity to support hard-pressed hospitals during the season, a report has shown.

My client pays monthly child benefits for his three children that live with their mother and he also has a mortgage of his own. He is claiming on a critical illness (CI) policy and is eligible for a pay-out. What are the considerations for taking the...

Chief executive officer of Simplyhealth, Des Benjamin, has stepped down after 13 years at the company.

The independent Board of the Bupa Foundation has decided to close and will wind up the medical research charity financially by the end of the year.

The Department of Health is increasing investment in stem cell donation by £4m in order to save an estimated 200 lives.

The FSA and Office of Fair Trading met last month with providers and advisers to debate short-term income protection final guidance. There were demands for the regulator to go further than simply highlighting PPI problems. Has the regulator done its job?...

The successes of now-defunct primary care trusts must not be forgotten in the redrawn commissioning structure, the NHS Confederation has warned.

Bupa has launched mobile occupational health screening units for corporate clients in an aim to reduce working hours lost to travelling to medical screenings.

This month, Jason Hurley stays close to home in the UK, looking a new, possibly industry-changing, way of branding and distributing insurance.

NHS centralisation and increasing transparency on prices and services will significantly narrow the range of mental health services available, Laing and Buisson has warned.