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VitalityHealth has responded to the Health and Social Care Information Centre's (HSCIC) report which revealed the high number of people taking prescription drugs on the NHS.

The number of registered deaths in the UK in 2013 was 576,458, down 13% from the number in 1983, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures for 2013 have revealed.

The average worker's income drops by £430 a week if they are only provided with statutory sick pay by their employer, research from LV= has found.

Advisers support the introduction of simplified protection products, with 79.4% seeing a place in the market for them, a survey has found.

A third of 33% of women aged over 65 needed help with at least one activity of daily living (ADL), compared to 23% of men, according to the Statistics from the Health and Social Care information centre.

The FCA has apologised following the Davis report into the leaking of a report to a Telegraph journalist.

A Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decision to brief a national newspaper on its plans to review long-term insurance contracts - which prompted significant falls in the share prices of several major providers - was "high risk" and inadequate, according...

The Protection Review has announced its first expansion beyond the protection arena with the launch of the Retirement Review.

Private sector providers have secured a third of the contracts to provide NHS clinical services since the Health and Social Care Act began in April 2013, an investigation by The British Medical Journal (The BMJ) has found.

Acquisitive private medical insurance (PMI) intermediary Chase Templeton has announced the completion of three new deals including the purchase of its first PMI book from a financial adviser.