Treatment and Care policy detail

Treatment and Care is for people who are happy to get diagnosis by the NHS but would like to receive treatment privately. Once you've been diagnosed, we will cover the cost of treatment by a private consultant and aftercare at a private hospital.

Getting treated. What’s covered?Show all

Hospital treatment Hide

Paid in full⁺.

This is the eligible treatment and care you have as an out-patient or whilst in hospital.

We will pay hospital and clinic charges for your eligible treatment and looking after you whilst in their care.

We will pay consultant fees (surgeons, anaesthetists or physicians) for your eligible treatment.

Out-patient therapies Hide

Paid in full⁺.

This includes therapies such as physiotherapy.

We will pay the therapists' fees in full for eligible treatment.

Mental health Hide

This includes eligible mental health treatment from a consultant or mental health and wellbeing therapist.

Treatment is subject to Bupa approval.

Limited to 28 days in-patient or day-patient care.

Post diagnosis out-patient consultations Hide

Paid in full⁺.

We will pay your fees for eligible consultations following treatment when you have been referred for this by your GP or a consultant.

Post diagnosis tests Hide

Paid in full⁺.

These are tests that your consultant may ask for following an initial diagnosis.

We will pay the hospital or clinic charges for these in full, whilst you are being treated as an out-patient, day-patient or in-patient. Included in this are any charges for interpreting the results of your tests.

Post diagnosis scans Hide

Paid in full⁺.

These are scans that your consultant may ask for to help them determine or assess your condition following an initial diagnosis.

We will pay scanning facility charges for MRI, CT and PET scans. Included in this are any charges for interpreting the results of your tests and scan.

Cancer treatment and drugs Hide

Paid in full⁺.

This includes treatment such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Additional benefitsShow all

NHS cash benefit Hide

We will pay a cash benefit for eligible treatment provided to you free under the NHS.

For in-patient treatment, you will receive £50 per night up to 35 nights per year.
In relation to cancer treatment, for in-patient and certain out-patient, day-patient and home treatment you will receive £100 per session/ night up to 35 sessions/nights per year.

Treatment at home Hide

Paid in full⁺.

Certain treatment such as chemotherapy could be potentially administered at your home instead of in hospital. This benefit is subject to Bupa's approval.

Home nursing Hide

Paid in full⁺.

We will pay for home nursing charges following eligible in-patient treatment. This benefit is subject to Bupa's approval.

Private ambulance Hide

We will pay for travel by private road ambulance if you need private day-patient treatment or in-patient treatment, and it is medically necessary for you to travel by ambulance.

Up to £60 per journey with no annual limit.

Bupa Anytime HealthLine Hide

Around the clock, unlimited telephone consultations with our team of GPs and nurses.

⁺When we say "paid in full" above we mean that all of your eligible treatment expenses will be covered, providing you are treated in one of the group of hospitals and clinics that you have chosen as part of your cover (your "facility access"), and you see a Bupa recognised consultant who charges in line with our guidelines (someone we call a "fee assured consultant").

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Call us today on 0800 077 8961*

Lines are open 8am-8pm Monday to Friday and 9am-1pm on Saturday.
Learn more about Treatment and Care

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* Calls may be recorded and may be monitored; lines are open Monday to Friday 8am - 8pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm.

† Adaptable cover from 98p per day. Price based on, 40-year-old shop worker, non-smoker, living in Oxford, with Prompt Diagnosis cover, on the essential access hospital network with a £100 excess.