Protection

Spending on social care of older people is set to be slashed by more than 8% this year and could accelerate the collapse of a crumbling system, Age UK has said.

Friends Life has announced its senior protection management team which will control the single protection proposition to be launched later this year.

The Health and Social Care Bill's 'mangled remains' should be buried in an unmarked grave and left there, according to the BMJ.

The middle classes should pay the first £35,000 of their old age care and be encouraged to take out insurance to cover costs, according to reports.

Failure to act on the Dilnot Commission would be 'catastrophic', according to the ABI, Society for Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) and other bodies in the long term care (LTC) sector.

IFAs fall behind friends, family and the internet as the main source of financial advice while young people are especially disconnected from the advice process, new research has revealed.

Patients have branded Bupa's strategy to review knee surgery as ‘risking the integrity of the doctor-patient relationship' and ‘not in line with best clinical practice'.

Intermediaries are overwhelmingly (91%) in favour of commission options in the group insurance market, Canada Life Group Insurance has said.

Friends Life has launched a selling techniques video for IFAs.

Any new legislation implementing private sector involvement in supporting the welfare state will not happen until a potential second term, according to the ABI.