Bupa originated in the UK in 1947, providing health insurance services to individuals to compliment the National Health Service scheme. Shortly after in 1950, Bupa had extended its services to include business health insurance with the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) one of its first customers. Later Bupa grew into a global health insurance provider, acquiring large health insurance companies across the world.
Today, Bupa UK is the leading health insurance provider in the UK, offering its services to over 3 million customers. Bupa UK continues to offer health insurance products, as well as private Bupa hospitals (Cromwell Hospital), health screening services,
Bupa UK offers comprehensive health insurance products for businesses, individuals and families. All Bupa UK plans offer access to a 24 hour helplines, extensive private cancer treatment, and online facilities to process claims and receive health advice. The Bupa Medical Centre phone service provides health advice and other services such as counseling on legal issues.
Bupa UK Business health insurance plans provide optional benefits including Employee Wellbeing, which offers employees counseling, legal advice, redundancy and financial advice.
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Bupa UK health insurance plans:
Health Insurance plans for UK Employees:
- Bupa Select:
- Small businesses (2 to 250 employees)
- Large businesses (more than 50 employees)
- Optional Benefits for large businesses
- Optional Benefits for businesses of any size
Health Insurance plans for UK Individual and Family
- Healthcare Select Plans
- Bupa Cash Plans
Bupa Assessments
- The Bupa Health Assessment offers a thorough health assessment, including an individual report and health action plan.
For more information about Bupa UK health insurance plans, or to receive a free Bupa Health Insurance Quote, please contact one of our dedicated advisers today.
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Health Insurance plans for UK Employees:
Bupa Select
- Small business (2 and 250 employees)
- Core coverage and optional benefits to increase coverage or options to reduce costs
- Inpatient cover: hospital accommodation, diagnostic tests, treatment and nursing care
- Outpatient cover: consultant, diagnostic tests, day surgery (up to £1,000 per year)
- Cancer treatments
- Psychiatric treatment (up to 45 days)
- Ambulance (up to £80 per trip)
- Home nursing
- Optional benefits
- Increase coverage:
- Outpatient cover increased to £1,500 per year, or full coverage
- Increase the range of hospitals where you can receive treatment
- Outpatient: remove the limits on treatment
- Cash benefits on everyday treatments including dental, optical, prescriptions
- Reduce costs:
- Outpatient cover reduced to £750, £500 or £250 per year
- Employees pay excess of £100, £150, £200, or £500 before they receive entitlement to benefits
- Exclude psychiatric treatment
- Six week waiting period scheme:
- If waiting list is less than 6 weeks at a NHS Hospital, treatment is received at that facility
- If waiting list is more than 6 weeks, treatment is received at a Bupa approved hospital
- Large businesses with more than 50 employees
- Core coverage and optional benefits to increase coverage or options to reduce costs, plus additional optional benefits and services
- Inpatient cover: hospital accommodation, diagnostic tests, treatment and nursing care at Bupa approved private hospitals
- Outpatient cover: consultant, diagnostic tests, day surgery
- Cancer treatments
- Psychiatric treatment
- Ambulance
- Home nursing
- Optional benefits
- Outpatient cover: increase or reduce benefitsv
- NHS cash benefits
- Psychiatric treatment
- Complimentary treatments
- Excess options available: employees pay excess before they receive entitlement to benefits
- Optional Benefits for large business:
- Occupational health
Health risk management service: early intervention, clinical assistance, manage employee health risk in and outside of work
Absence management: identify absence trends through records, identify health risks, strategy, clinical support - Travel health:
onsite vaccinations and assessment including deep vein thrombosis, help you to develop travel policies and deliver travel seminars Seasonal flu vaccinations: onsite vaccinations - Occupational health for railways:
assessment of fitness for work, drug and alcohol screening, medication advice for safety critical workers, health surveillance and assist in return to work after injury. - Optional benefits for businesses of any size:
- Bupa Health Assessments
The Bupa Health Assessment offers a thorough health assessment, including an individual report and health action plan. - Employee Wellbeing
- Employee Assistance: Phone counseling for employees (workplace issues such as stress, financial and legal), face to face counseling, advice on management benchmarking.
- Drug and Alcohol Screening: assist in develop drug and alcohol policies, screening and support for drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
- Trauma Counseling: helplines and workshops for employees.
- Private medical treatment services
- General practioner: book appointments for doctor to perform consultations and treatment in your workplace.
- Physiotherapy: book appointments for physiotherapist to perform consultations and treatment in your workplace.
- Dental: book appointments for dentist to perform consultations and treatment in your workplace.
- Onsite medical services:
Permanent onsite doctor and nurse service (must have over 750 employees) to perform consultations and treatments in your workplace.
For more information about Bupa UK health insurance plans, or to receive a free Bupa Health Insurance Quote, please contact one of our dedicated advisers today.
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Health Insurance plans for UK Individual and Family
- Healthcare Select Plans:
Healthcare Select 1
Healthcare Select 2
Healthcare Select 3 Plus
Healthcare Select 3
Healthcare Select 4
Healthcare Select Heart and Cancer
Bupa UK Cash Plans
Bupa Cash Plans - Bupa UK Cash Plans:
Bupa Health Cash Back
Bupa Patient Cash
Healthcare Select 1
- Highest level of Healthcare Select coverage
- Inpatient cover: surgical operations, hospital accommodation, nursing care (in Bupa selected national or local hospitals).
- Outpatient cover: consultant or specialist fees, day surgery.
- Diagnostic tests: MRI, CT, PET scans at a Bupa recognized facility
- Up to £1000 on outpatient treatments including physiotherapy
- Up to £250 on complimentary medicine
- Cancer treatments
- Psychiatric treatment (after 2 years membership)
- Private Ambulance
- Parent accommodation when staying with child
Healthcare Select 2
- Inpatient cover: surgical operations, hospital accommodation, nursing care (in Bupa selected national or local hospitals).
- Outpatient cover: consultant or specialist fees, day surgery.
- Diagnostic tests: MRI, CT, PET scans at a Bupa recognized facility
- Outpatient treatments including physiotherapy: up to £500
- Cancer treatments
- Psychiatric treatment (after 2 years membership)
- Private Ambulance
- Parent accommodation when staying with child
Healthcare Select 3 Plus
- Inpatient cover: surgical operations, hospital accommodation, diagnostic tests, nursing care (in Bupa selected national or local hospitals).
- Outpatient cover: up to £1000 on consultant or specialist fees, day surgery.
- Diagnostic tests: up to £1000
- utpatient treatments including physiotherapy: up to £1000
- Cancer treatments
- Private Ambulance
- Parent accommodation when staying with child
Healthcare Select 3
- Inpatient cover: surgical operations, hospital accommodation, nursing care (in Bupa selected national or local hospitals)
- Outpatient cover: up to £500 consultant or specialist fees, day surgery.
- Diagnostic tests: MRI, CT, PET scans at a Bupa recognized facility
- Outpatient treatments including physiotherapy: up to £500
- Cancer treatments
- Private Ambulance
- Parent accommodation when staying with child
Healthcare Select 4
- Inpatient cover: surgical operations, hospital accommodation, nursing care (in Bupa selected national or local hospitals).
- Outpatient cover: consultant or specialist fees, day surgery.
- Diagnostic tests: MRI, CT, PET scans at a Bupa recognized facility
- Outpatient treatments including physiotherapy: up to £250
- Cancer treatments
- Private Ambulance
- Parent accommodation when staying with child
Healthcare Select Heart and Cancer
- Inpatient cover: surgical operations, hospital accommodation, nursing care (in Bupa selected national or local hospitals).
- Outpatient cover: consultant or specialist fees, day surgery.
- Diagnostic tests: MRI, CT, PET scans at a Bupa recognized facility
- Outpatient treatments including physiotherapy: up to £500
- Cancer treatments
- Private Ambulance
- Parent accommodation when staying with child
- Bupa UK Cash Plans
Bupa UK provide convenient cash plans which allow you to claim 100 percent cash back for everyday treatment such as dental, optical, prescriptions, physiotherapy and chiropractic treatment.
All Bupa cash plans provide 24 hour access to Bupa's healthline, staffed by qualified nurses offering a range of services from managing your health to claims queries.
Pre-existing conditions such as asthma, diabetes and arthritis are covered on the Bupa Health Cash Back plan. Members are also entitled to a Bupa Health Assessment which includes a comprehensive examination and a personalized health report and action plan.
Bupa Cash Plans are beneficial to all types of members, even if the individual does not require treatment. Non medical benefits are available including access to the 24 hour Bupa healthline, which provides not only health advice, but counseling on debt, redundancy and legal issues.
Claims are processed easily by submitting a claim form online or through mail.
- Bupa Cash Plans:
Bupa Health Cash Back
Bupa Patient Cash - Bupa Health Cash Back
Everyday treatment covered up to the maximum limit for your selected level of cover.
Pre-existing illnesses covered such as Asthma, Arthritis and Diabetes - Benefits:
- Consultations
- Bupa health assessment
- Medical appliances
- Optical
- Dental
- Prescription medicines
- Therapy: Physiotherapy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Homeothapy and diagnostic tests
- Bupa 24 hour helpline: medical queries, claims queries, health information, locate medical facilities
- Bupa Patient Cash
- Inpatient and everyday treatment covered up to the maximum limit for your selected level of cover. Level 1, 2 or 3 available.
- Benefits:
- Consultations
Level 1: up to £150
Level 2: up to £300
Level 3 up to £600 - Therapy: Physiotherapy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Homeothapy
Level 1: up to £150
Level 2: up to £300
Level 3: up to £600 - Diagnostic tests
Level 1: up to £150
Level 2: up to £300
Level 3: up to £600 - Hospital in-patient
Level 1: £25 per night
Level 2: £50 per night
Level 3: £100 per night - Hospital day surgery
Level 1: £25 per night
Level 2: £50 per night
Level 3: £100 per night
For more information about Bupa UK health insurance plans, or to receive a free Bupa Health Insurance Quote, please contact one of our dedicated advisers today.
- Healthcare Select Plans:
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Bupa Health Assessments
The Bupa Health Assessment offers a thorough health assessment, including an individual report and health action plan.
You do not need to have a Bupa health insurance plan to purchase a Bupa Health Assessment. Bupa Assessments can be purchased by Bupa members and non Bupa members.
There are a range of Bupa Health Assessments to choose from, some assessments are designed for certain individuals and age groups, focusing on certain aspects and areas of health care.
Bupa Health Assessments:
- Bupa Advanced Health
- Bupa Complete Health
- Bupa Essential Health
- Bupa Core Health
- Bupa Female Health
- Bupa Mature Health
- Bupa Fitness Assessment
- Bupa Health Progress
All Bupa Health Assessments include:
- Medical history
- Lifestyle Questionaire
- Physical examination
- Consultation with a Bupa doctor, nurse or health advisor
- Discussion about any concerns you may have
- Personalized health report
- Action Plan to minimize health risks and promote good health
For more information about Bupa UK health insurance plans, or to receive a free Bupa Health Insurance Quote, please contact one of our dedicated advisers today.
