Health Insurance News UK
April 20 2010
The health insurance industry has concerns at the moment about how it will fund cancer cover in the future. The aim is that health education and early detection will help to reduce the need for health insurance for cancer. This week is Male Cancer Awareness Week. Every year Orchid, the mail cancer charity use this [...]
April 18 2010
The current political climate means that all parties are talking about what they want to do with the NHS. If the conservatives win the election they have promised to allow any healthcare provider that meets NHS standards to provide NHS care. Currently NHS patients are sometimes treated in private health establishments but under a conservative [...]
April 16 2010
According to Deloitte’s 2010 Survey of Health Care Consumers only a quarter of respondents said they felt they had enough health cover: four out of five said they were only ‘adequately insured.’ The Deloitte survey looked at 1,000 British adults in order to find out consumer attitudes about both private and NHS medical treatment. Over [...]
April 12 2010
Health screening is something that is generally considered to be a good thing in medicine. Early detection of problems can mean that serious illness can be avoided or limited. Some private medical insurance companies, for example, PruHealth even encourage their customers to have health screens by giving them decreased premiums if they take part. However [...]
April 8 2010
Choosing health insurance for cancer is not as simple as it may sound. This is because there is a very varied offering when it comes to private medical insurance for cancer. Some companies provide very basic levels of cancer cover whereas others offer very full cancer cover. It is important to ask the right questions [...]
April 3 2010
Bupa is the UK’s largest health insurance company. They are always in the public eye, not just for their health care offerings but also for their involvement in healthcare projects across the UK. One of their latest is their Carer of the Year Award which they have launched in conjunction with the Daily Mail. Bupa [...]
April 1 2010
PruHealth have a unique selling point – they offer gym membership as an incentive for people to buy their health insurance. This is appears to be a great bonus for their customers. However since its introduction in 2007 member benefits have been on the decrease and now this appealing incentive has been cut down again. [...]