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The government has responded to the Office of Fair Trading market study of private and NHS dental markets.

NHS dental care information needs greater attention, Medicash has advised.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has concluded the £5.73bn UK dentistry market is not always working in the best interests of patients.

Private medical Insurers (PMI) have endorsed the Office of Fair Trading referring the UK healthcare market to the Competition Commission and said they will take an active part in investigations.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred the privately funded healthcare market to the Competition Commission for investigation.

Questions have been tabled in the House of Lords' asking the government for its assessment of key elements of the private medical insurance (PMI) market.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel has called for the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to be given full responsibility for the regulation of retail financial services, including consumer credit.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) should consider healthcare trusts as the most transparent form of corporate private medical insurance (PMI), specialists have said.

Bupa has hit back at claims by doctors that its open referrals process is ‘flawed on several levels' and limits patient choice.

An industry expert has called for greater engagement by the protection industry to prevent regulation of payment protection insurance (PPI) hurting the protection market.