BUPA
Company Information
About
The BUPA Company
Who
are BUPA and what do they do?
BUPA is an international health and care company with bases on three
continents and more than seven million customers.
BUPA is a provident association and does not have
shareholders and reinvests its surpluses into improved health and
care facilities: medical equipment, the latest technology and buildings.
- Health
insurance
- Hospitals
- Care
homes
- Health
assessments
- Childcare
- International
- Sanitas
BUPA Health insurance
BUPA's biggest and first business is health insurance in the UK,
both for individuals and corporations that want to look after the
health of their employees. More than half of the UK's major companies
are BUPA customers.
BUPA
has special products for people who want:
- financial
assistance if they suffer a critical illness
- regular
income if illness or injury prevents them from working
- life
cover to give peace of mind that their dependants will be secure
- cash
plans that meet the cost of health expenses: dental and hospital
bills
BUPA Hospitals
Hospitals in this country treat nearly a quarter of a million patients
a year. In most cases, every aspect of the care received by patients
at BUPA's UK hospitals is mapped out from their admission to discharge.
This includes everyone concerned with their treatment, from the
doctors and nurses to the pharmacist.
Care
homes
BUPA's United Kingdom care homes offer specialist care to residents
who include the elderly, the mentally ill, young people with physical
or learning disabilities and others with conditions such as Parkinson's
and Huntington's diseases.
Health
assessments
Important aspects of healthcare is preventing illness. Assessment
of the whole body can give many clues to problems that may arise
and BUPA has 42 Wellness centres where customers are examined and
have a consultation with a BUPA doctor. Most results are available
later the same day along with a personalised action plan.
Childcare
With a growing number of families having both parents working, professional
childcare is increasingly needed. BUPA offers a search and selection
service for parents and employers to help find appropriate childcare
facilities whether it's a nanny, childminder, au pair, nursery or
after-school club.
BUPA
has a network of 44 nurseries in the UK, looking after over 2,000
children aged from three months to five years. The nursery chain,
known as 'Teddies' has introduced its own curriculum to prepare
young children for school.
International
BUPA is a leading healthcare company in other countries as well
as the UK, Spain, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malta
and Saudi Arabia. BUPA International supplies health cover to expatriates
in over 180 countries.
Sanitas
Sanitas is the BUPA business in Spain, and has one million insured
customers who have access to a network of 18,000 medical professionals
and 450 medical centres.
BUPA
is a regular winner of major industry awards in a number of countries.
BUPA HISTORY
History
of BUPA
For over fifty years BUPA has been dedicated to caring for people's
health. Their services have grown from funding treatment, to providing
treatment and care, to preventing illness and encouraging a healthy
lifestyle.
As
BUPA look towards the next fifty years, their aims remain the same
as they did in 1947: to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill
health, to promote health in any way, and to raise, establish, maintain
and administer a fund for defraying medical costs on behalf of their
members.
BUPA's
head office address:
BUPA,
BUPA House,
15-19 Bloomsbury Way,
London
WC1A 2BA
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