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While over 93% of respondents rated their dental health as important, nearly 1 in 3 have had to cancel or delay dental treatment due to cost.

GPs are set to be balloted on what could become co-ordinated, NHS-wide industrial action against the Government's pension reforms, it has been reported.

Zurich has announced that it is planning to return to the direct insurance market in the UK later this year in a strategic partnership with its subsidiary Endsleigh.

Now in his eighties, Dr Marius Barnard is still campaigning to improve medical and financial health through insurance. Edward Murray talks to the father of critical illness policies.

Large numbers of care home residents who are presently private payers will be drawn within the ambit of local authority payment, Laing & Buisson has warned.

Stakeholders within the life assurance market need to work together to tackle the ongoing problem of cancellation and persistency rates, a national IFA has urged.

The Dilnot Commission report, set up by the Government to recommend a fair and sustainable funding system for adult social care in England, is to be welcomed.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today banned two insurance brokers for misconduct including falsifying documents and underinsuring clients for their own financial gain.

Philippa Gee, managing director of Philippa Gee Wealth Management, has digested Dilnot's proposed reforms on care home funding and found a few things which stick in her throat...

The FSA said it may look at ways to improve the standard of advice for products that meet care fees funding needs.