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

Employers will have up to a fortnight to report payments of certain benefits and expenses under revised real time information proposals, according to HM Revenue and Customs proposals.

The Income Protection Task Force has planned to launch a consumer charter as part of a three-point plan for income protection.

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.

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.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be run as a consumer champion and not for the benefit of member firms, according to a leading regulatory lawyer.

Aviva's programme of job cuts, which will see 800 staff made redundant, is on track to save the insurer £250m by the end of the year, according to latest results.