Willis Towers Watson has developed the first widely-available mortality model to use medical science and the views of medical experts to improve predictiveness.

04 April 2016 • 2 min read

Critical Illness

L&G enhances term and terminal illness (TIC) cover

Legal & General has upgraded its term assurance products and terminal illness cover (TIC).

15 March 2016 • 1 min read

Long Term Care

Care home pathways require major reforms to prevent NHS 'bed-blocking'

The NHS currently ‘wastes' £3.3bn keeping elderly patients in hospital when the money would be better spent on a Fast Track Discharge Fund to move them into care homes, a report has urged.

01 March 2016 • 3 min read

Long Term Care

Council tax rises 'will not fix social care funding crisis'

Council tax rises to pay for social care in 2016/17 will not alleviate growing pressures on the services caring for the elderly and disabled, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

24 February 2016 • 2 min read

Whole of Life

Royal London backs warning over soaring funeral costs

A report saying that with deaths likely to rise, funeral costs will also increase is ‘spot on', according to Royal London.

22 April 2015 •

Whole of Life

One in eight over-50s has a serious illness - Engage Mutual

An estimated 2.6 million people aged 50 plus are living with a serious illness in England with 3.1m over-50s living in serious ill health across the UK as a whole, research has found.

09 February 2015 •