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The Office of Fair Trading has referred the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission (CC) and revealed a move by the FSA, ABI and health insurers to better inform customers.

Bupa has upped the ante in its dispute with BMI hospitals by warning that it is likely to cut ties with 24 more of the group's hospitals after the pair failed to agree a contract for next year.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has called on insurers and regulators to take more responsibility for their products if they want them sold by non-professional brokers.

The ABI has railed against government plans to scrap life assurance tax relief which could hit as many as 1.5 million policyholders.

Doctors have branded the government's current structural NHS changes in preparation for its reforms as ‘chaotic and poorly co-ordinated'.

More people than ever are being signed off work with stress, according to new research.

Saga paid 12 people £13,000 each in compensation after one of its advisers mis-sold them funds within long term care (LTC) plans.

The new NHS focus on patient outcomes will specifically target getting those suffering long term conditions or mental illness back into work.

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: With pressures on maintaining drawdown income levels is there more interest in moving to flexible investment-linked annuities?