The Mortgage Market Review (MMR) could significantly affect the protection market, Swiss Re has said.

Surgeons' representatives have questioned Bupa's claim of support by the General Medical Council (GMC) for its knee surgery review procedure.

A commission has been launched to look at improving dignity and care to older patients in hospitals and care homes.

The government has extended its NHS choice agenda to include community and mental health services.

Simplyhealth has appointed a new underwriting and pricing director.

Consumers are becoming more confident in shunning specialist financial advice and purchasing financial products online, according to new research.

Holloway Friendly has launched a new adviser website including a range of tools to aid the application process.

Aviva has reduced the turnaround time for life cover medical evidence assessments with all underwriting decisions now being made within 24 hours.

The collapse of Southern Cross may be repeated by other care home operators as local authorities have frozen the rates they will pay for their funded care home residents.

Businesses are seeing budgets stretched in many ways, but, as Owain Thomas found, advisers who are creative with solutions could produce a windfall for themselves in the group critical illness market