October 2017

5 Great Employee Benefit Options

If you own or run a business and employ staff in the UK there are number of employee benefit options that you can choose to run alongside private medical insurance or as a totally independent plan. If health insurance is too costly for your annual budget, there are still plenty of lower cost cover types that help you as the business owner to comply with your duty of care without excessive cost implications. It is a good idea to compare all of the employee benefit options available to you because you can then ensure you have the right cover in…

Stoptober 2017

Health Insurers define a smoker as anyone who has used tobacco products in the past 12 months. This is regardless of whether or not you are only an occasional smoker.

Health insurance covering dental claims

ore and more of us are looking to private dentists for our treatment which inevitably results in an increase in cost. Essentially this is because fewer NHS dentists are open to new patients.

Is Lifestyle Surgery available on your Health Insurance?

For each of the procedures, there are set eligibility and age criteria. You will only be eligible for the above procedures when you have been advised by a consultant that the procedure is clinically necessary.

What is Aviva’s Selected Benefit reduction option 7?

If you are looking at the renewal of your policy and they are not your current provider, you could look at switching to Aviva as an alternative provider. Adding Option 7 to your cover might offer you additional savings.

Back Care Awareness Week – 2nd -6th October 2017

This week is Back Care Awareness Week and BackCare, the UK’s National Back Pain Association, has partnered with kidsbacks4thefuture, a multi award winning social enterprise, to educate children and young people about the importance of taking care of their backs during childhood and teenage years. With many of the back and neck pain problems experienced by adults due to them not looking after their backs during childhood and teenage years, there are many ways we can teach children to take care of their backs and here are some effective tips provided by kidsbacks4thefuture, all of which can help prevent future…