Health Insurance News Articles

A Bupa survey of it's customers has resulted in it's healthcare cash plan achieving record customer satisfaction scores, with a substantial 92% of customers rating the service as either 'very good' or 'excellent'.

The scores come as the Bupa Cash Plan celebrates its 10th year of providing cover for healthcare expenses such as eye tests, dental care and chiropody plus other treatments that are not readily available on the NHS.

Head of Bupa Cash Plan, Stuart Wright commented: "Customer service is our top priority, so we're really pleased with these results. In the last 10 years, we have seen a three fold increase in customers and the popularity of cash plans continue to rise. It is an outstanding Full Story

Norwich Union Healthcare has launched a new personal income protection product named Income Protection Solutions which is designed to combine competitive premiums with no standard exclusions, guaranteed or reviewable rates, flexibility options such as limited benefit terms and retirement ages from 50 to 70.

Marketing propositions manager at Norwich Union Healthcare, Nick Homer said: "State incapacity benefit currently only provides £75.40 per week (rising to £84.50 after 52 weeks) which for most people is nowhere near enough to meet their needs. Consequently many people are currently vulnerable to the potentially devastating financial effects caused by Full Story

A recent survey conducted by Employee Benefits Magazine and HSA Healthcare has highlighted that stress appears to be particularly concerning for large companies including those operating within the public sector.

The annual benchmark survey which surveyed over 500 readers of Employee Benefits magazine, showed that 47% of companies believe stress is a primary cause of sickness absence which increases to 64% for companies with more than 10,000 employees. Again this figure risies to to 86% among public sector organisations.

Glenn Rhodes of HSA, commented: Full Story