Norwich Union Healthcare has introduced an increased hospital list option on its individual Fair + Square private medical insurance policy, making it more widely available to customers throughout the UK.
Norwich Union Healthcare has introduced an increased hospital list option on its individual Fair + Square private medical insurance policy, making it more widely available to customers throughout the UK.
The existing Fair + Square product - which offers a choice between private treatment or NHS with money back - provides access to 119 private hospitals where customers can have treatment.
The new expanded hospital list option - Fair + Square Hospital Plus - enables access to almost all private hospitals in the UK - an increased choice of nearly 200 hospitals.
The Hospital Plus option now means that Fair + Square is more widely available to those whose local hospital wasn't previously included.
The original Fair + Square network product with the reduced hospital list, which is cheaper than Fair + Square Hospital Plus to reflect this, will still be available.
Carolyn Derrington, head of business development, said: "Fair + Square is very successful with the existing hospital network but we have many more enquirers looking for the choice in healthcare treatment that Fair + Square offers.
We are therefore extending the choice to a much wider prospective customer audience."
Fair + Square and Fair + Square Hospital Plus offer affordable premiums plus a choice between private or NHS care for people needing hospital treatment.
Customers who decide to use the NHS rather than going to a private hospital, receive a cash sum - Ł500 for the first night in hospital and Ł250 for subsequent nights, and Ł250 per day for day patient treatment (to a maximum of Ł10,000 per person per year).
Intermediary contact number for Fair and Square: 0845 3000 649
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Notes to Editors:
- Norwich Union Healthcare was founded in 1990 as the healthcare arm of Norwich Union and now provides a range of income protection and private medical insurance products to around 650,000 customers. It is one of the largest providers of income protection and private medical insurance in the UK.
- CGU plc and Norwich Union plc merged on 30 May 2000 to create CGNU plc, the UK's largest insurance group and one of the top-five insurers in Europe with substantial positions in other markets around the world, making it the world's sixth largest insurer based on gross worldwide premiums.
- CGNU's principal business activities are long-term savings, fund management and general insurance, with worldwide premium income and retail investment sales from ongoing business of over Ł27 billion and assets under management of more than Ł210 billion.
- From October 2000, the combined life and pensions, general insurance and retail fund management businesses in the UK operate under the Norwich Union brand, while the institutional investment business operates under the Morley Fund Management brand.
- Norwich Union's news releases are available on the internet at www.cgnu-group.com