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General Practitioners (GPs) have accepted Fit Notes implementation, but barriers remain, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found.

Local government secretary Eric Pickles has vowed to ban the practice of public sector staff retiring with large pension pots then returning to work on new deals.

With the Department of Work and Pensions to publish its Sickness Absence Review on Monday, the UK Rehabilitation Council (UKRC) is urging government to lead in proactive return-to-work strategies.

The Investment Company Institute (ICI) has hired Giles Swan as Director of Global Funds Policy for its newly formed global division based in London.

Framing questions in the right way can completely change the relationship advisers have with their clients and get to the heart of what they need.

Senior industry figures have backed a new consultation by the FSA into whether or not to extend a proposed fund manager rebate ban to life insurance products.

The FTSE opened 1% lower on Friday following heavy falls in the US and across Asia overnight, with investors spooked by Spanish bond yields moving perilously close to the critical 7% level yesterday.

The head of operations at the Financial Ombudsman Service has left amid concerns of high staff turnover at the organisation, which is now seeking a replacement for the £140,000 a year role.

A meeting in Berlin between David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be dominated by the European debt crisis, but is expected to also tackle the concept of a tax on financial transactions - known as the Tobin Tax - on which the two nations...

Capita Financial Managers, which wants Arch Cru investors to accept a payoff linked to the sale of assets from the suspended fund range, has admitted that three-quarters of the remaining value of the cells is uncertain.