Health Insurance News UK

The six week option is one way in which private health insurance companies try to reduce health cover premiums for their clients. As an extension to this type of scheme AXA PPP Healthcare have launched a new product for the business health insurance market: Corporate Health Plan 6. In 1979 AXA PPP were the first [...]

Junior doctors have to learn. However, how do we feel about them practising on us? Recent figures from the NHS shows the high level of mistakes that are made by junior doctors during their first four months in a new role. Health insurance has many advantages but for the consumer surely one of them must [...]

Drinking alcohol, even in small quantities, according to some, can have an adverse affect on your health. In fact over-drinking is a big problem in the UK. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have come out this week in support of a minimum price per unit for alcohol to act as a [...]

Bupa will be launching a new and more flexible health insurance package, Bupa Select, for businesses taking out cover for more than 50 employees. The new scheme which will launch on 1st December 2009, will enable employers to create a tailor-made, medical insurance package for their companies. At the centre of the package is a [...]

One of the things that people appreciate about private health insurance is the high standard of catering that is provided by most private hospitals. Bupa’s Cromwell Hospital has won Hotel Services Award at the 2009 Independent Healthcare Awards for its provision of excellent services. For many people part of the experience of good health care [...]

Traditionally private health insurance has promoted the speedy return of test results when people enter the private health care system. The NHS, who have been returning results faster than ever before, have new directives from the government to give those suspected of suffering from cancer even quicker turnarounds. With the health insurance sector struggling to [...]

There are many differences in the provision between the US and the UK. One of the main differences is the balance of provision between private and state-funded health care. The US is now looking around the world to find ways in which to improve the access of its poorest people to health care. Even though [...]

Currently there is a moratorium on health insurance companies taking genetic testing into account (apart from life insurance claims over £500,000 and critical illness claims of over £300,000) when they work out a person’s risk. This stands until 2014 but a new report from the House of Lords is asking that this timescale be extended [...]