Health Insurance News UK

Work places want healthy employees. It makes sense, a healthy workforce is a productive one. Private medical insurance helps. 14% of UK companies offer company health insurance which covers employees when they are ill. As the recession bites there is a dual pressure now on employers. They need to cut costs but they also need [...]

A new Bill proposal announced to the government by the queen earlier this month is set to improve the NHS. However it remains to be seen how this will be achieved since there are also proposed cost cutting plans which will affect how the NHS is run. The queen, speaking to parliament earlier this month, [...]

Despite the recession a new report by analysts Laing and Buisson states that the private health insurance market is still growing. 7,562,000 UK citizens have private medical insurance policies or trusts and this figure represents 12.3% of the population. This report contradicts other reports which have registered health insurance market decline. In comparison to 2006 [...]

Even though there has been a massive shift of emphasis from treating ill health towards health care prevention the latest report from private medical insurance company PruHealth shows that British people are more likely to wait until they are diagnosed with a condition before they make positive preventative health and lifestyle changes. The general results [...]

NHS union leaders have warned that GP’s may choose not to work if the Swine Flu pandemic gets more widespread. The problem centres around the possibility that they may get sued by patients and not be covered under their insurances. One of the problems is GP’s insurance ‘death in service’ clause which states that they [...]

Despite some positive reports that people are still renewing and buying health insurance policies there are also reports that the industry is also suffering during the current recession. Overall the results show that companies are tightening their belts. For Axa PPP part of the solution is asking their staff how they would prefer to weather [...]

As previously reported, a desire for better standards of cleanliness is the top reason people choose to go for private medical insurance rather than the NHS. This month Nuffield Health, the independent hospital group and wellbeing provider has completed the final phase of its three year build of 6 six hospital sterile service units (HSSUs). [...]

Health insurance policies come in all shapes, sizes and price brackets but one of the most important things to look at is the small print. Here is where you will find out the details of what your policy does and does not offer. When you are shopping for medical insurance ask to see the actual [...]

Consumers are likely to be outraged by the current news that some medical establishments may be charging health insurance companies up to 50% more for treatments than they do private individuals. Ultimately what consumers will ask is whether premiums could be cheaper if health insurance companies were being offered the same deals as independent self-pay [...]