Health care select heart and cancer

What's covered?Show all

In-patient and day-patient treatment

Hospital charges Hide

In a selected national access hospital.

Consultants' / specialists' fees Hide

In a selected national access hospital. Bupa benefit limits apply if the consultant isn’t a Bupa partnership consultant.

Diagnostic tests Hide

In a selected national access hospital.

Radiotherapy / chemotherapy Hide

In a selected national access hospital or, for certain conditions, a Bupa specialist treatment centre. Benefit limits apply if the consultant oncologist isn’t a Bupa partnership consultant.

Out-patient treatment

Consultations with a consultant or specialist Hide

With a Bupa recognised consultant.

Diagnostic tests Hide

MRI, CT and PET scans in a Bupa recognised out-patient diagnostic imaging centre.

Radiotherapy / chemotherapy Hide

In a selected national access hospital or, for certain conditions, a Bupa specialist treatment centre. Benefit limits apply if the consultant oncologist isn’t a Bupa partnership consultant.

Physiotherapy (and other therapies) Hide

On GP or Bupa recognised consultant referral to a Bupa recognised therapist. This is the combined overall benefit limit for all therapies.

Up to £500 per year^.

Additional benefits

Private ambulance Hide

We cover travel by private road ambulance when it is medically necessary for you to travel by ambulance to receive eligible day-patient or in-patient treatment.

Up to £60 per trip.

Parent accommodation when staying with a child Hide

Child under 12 receiving eligible private in-patient treatment. Applies to one parent only.

What's not covered?Show all

Bupa Heartbeat health care select heart and cancer doesn't cover: Hide

• treatment for conditions which aren’t eligible acute heart - or cancer conditions
• psychiatric treatment
• complementary medicine
• nursing at home

Bupa Heartbeat doesn’t routinely cover the following conditions and treatments. Full details can be found in the membership guide.

• Ageing, menopause and puberty
• AIDS / HIV‡
• Allergies or allergic disorders
• Birth control, conception, sexual problems and sex changes‡
• Chronic conditions‡
• Complications from excluded or restricted conditions / treatment
• Convalescence, rehabilitation and general nursing care‡
• Cosmetic, reconstructive or weight loss treatment‡
• Deafness
• Dental / oral treatment (such as fillings, gum disease, jaw shrinkage etc)‡
• Dialysis‡
• Drugs and dressings for out-patient or take-home use‡
• Experimental drugs and treatment‡
• Treatment to correct eyesight (eg long or short sight)‡
• HRT and bone densitometry‡
• Learning difficulties, behavioural and developmental problems
• Overseas treatment and repatriation
• Physical aids and devices‡
• Pre-existing or special conditions
• Pregnancy and childbirth‡
• Screening and preventive treatment
• Sleep problems and disorders
• Speech disorders‡
• Temporary relief of symptoms‡
• Unrecognised providers or facilities