Private Medical Insurance
What is private medical insurance?
A private health insurance or private medical (PMI) is an insurance policy that covers the cost of private medical care should you become unwell. It works alongside the NHS and often gives you access to shorter wait times, a choice of location and treatments only offered privately.
Challenge
The median waiting time for treatment through the NHS is 14.6 weeks. The average waiting time for GP appointments is 19 days.
Support
With growing pressures and long wait times at the NHS, you need to provide your employees with quick access to treatment to ensure diagnosis is treated and identified early and any treatment can be conducted in a short time frame. PMI is now seen as a key benefit for employees and more employees will ask or expect this benefit when joining a new employer
Perform
With a wide range of hospitals and specialists to treat your condition, you are able to be seen to and recuperate faster. Business health insurance also includes rehabilitation in a private room which can relieve the stress of treatment.
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Challenge
The median waiting time for treatment through the NHS is 14.6 weeks. The average waiting time for GP appointments is 19 days.
Support
With growing pressures and long wait times at the NHS, you need to provide your employees with quick access to treatment to ensure diagnosis is treated and identified early and any treatment can be conducted in a short time frame. PMI is now seen as a key benefit for employees and more employees will ask or expect this benefit when joining a new employer
Perform
With a wide range of hospitals and specialists to treat your condition, you are able to be seen to and recuperate faster. Business health insurance also includes rehabilitation in a private room which can relieve the stress of treatment.
Why your business needs Private Medical Insurance?
When the health of your people is at risk, you want to do all you can to support them to get well and return to their life as usual. With the increasing demands on the healthcare system, providing your people with an alternative solution that will give them access to the best care, quickly, is something you can do for them, their families, your colleagues and your business.
Our knowledge of this competitive market will provide you with the peace of mind that we recommend the best healthcare and medical insurance scheme to suit your business and the needs of your workforce.
The benefits
Benefits to the employer
- Provides a benefits package that will help you to attract and retain the best talent
- Demonstrates a genuine care for staff welfare
- Reassures your people that their efforts in the workplace really count
- Provides a simple and cost-effective way to experience the essential benefits of private healthcare
- Reduces the costs associated with absence, helping employees back to work quickly
Benefits to the employee
- Provides peace of mind and reassurance for your people and their loved ones
- Affords access to consultations and treatment quickly
- Provides access to a wide selection of private hospitals throughout the UK
- Employees have the choice of when and where they receive treatment
- Provides peace of mind that you can access the best possible care at a comfortable private hospital
- Provides you the choice of when and where they are treated
