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Private Medical Insurance — Explained

Discover Individual Health Insurance Policies Tailored to You.

Explore the advantages of individual health insurance policies, providing fast access to personalized healthcare. These policies help navigate private medical facilities, reducing wait times and ensuring timely treatments.

Assure-U specializes in helping individuals find the right individual health insurance policies that meet their financial and medical needs.

 

Compare top options now and secure peace of mind for you and your family.

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Step 1

Your Core Health Insurance Cover

Every private health insurance policy is built around a core set of protections. These form the foundation of your cover and determine how and when your policy is used.

Important

All private health insurance policies in the UK are built around inpatient cover, which forms the core protection.

 

Cancer cover is typically included within this, but access to specific treatments and drugs can vary between providers. Underwriting determines what your policy will and won’t cover based on your medical history, making it a key decision when setting up your cover.

In Patient Cover

Inpatient cover is the foundation of all private health insurance policies. It typically includes hospital stays, consultant fees, surgery, and tests carried out during admission. This is the part of your policy that protects you against the highest-cost medical events.

Cancer Cover

Cancer cover is usually included as its own benefit as treatment can fall within both inpatient and outpatient. This may include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, advanced drugs, ongoing monitoring and surgery.

Underwriting

Underwriting is one of the most important parts of setting up your policy. It defines how pre-existing conditions are handled and can affect future claims. The most common options include moratorium and full medical underwriting.

Step 2

Tailor Your Health Insurance

This is where your policy becomes personal. These options have the biggest impact on both your monthly premium and how you access treatment.

The following options are where most of the cost and flexibility of your policy comes from. Adjusting outpatient cover, excess levels, and hospital access can significantly change how your policy works in practice, as well as how much you pay.

Out Patient Cover

Outpatient cover typically includes specialist consultations, scans, and diagnostic tests. Higher levels of outpatient cover can reduce waiting times and give faster access to treatment without needing hospital admission.

Excess

Choosing a higher excess can significantly reduce your premium. It’s important to balance affordability with how likely you are to use your policy.

Hospital Lists

Hospital lists vary between insurers and policy levels. More restricted lists can reduce costs, while broader access gives you greater choice of hospitals and specialists.

Step 3

Additional Cover Options

Depending on the insurer, you may be able to enhance your policy with additional benefits designed to support both everyday health and specialist treatment.

Mental Health Cover

Support for conditions such as anxiety, depression, and stress-related illnesses.

Therapies

Access to physiotherapy, osteopathy, and other rehabilitation treatments.

Dental & Optical

Optional cover for routine dental care, check-ups, and vision-related costs.

Private GP Services

Faster access to GP appointments, often via app or video consultation.

Protected No Claims

Helps preserve your no claims discount even after making a claim on your policy.

Diagnostics

Covers tests and scans used to identify conditions, such as MRIs, CT scans, and blood tests.

FAQs

Your Questions, Answered

Explore our FAQs to get answers to some of the most common questions about our services, processes, and how we can help you achieve your financial goals.

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