Bupa Private Health Care Through Work - Any Good?

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My work have recently switched to Bupa private healthcare and we have two weeks to decide if we want to sign up.

I will pay £600/year in tax for the family. It covers GP access but the prescriptions will be charged private rates. It also provides an annual cancer screening test for the family.

Does anyone have any experience of Bupa - is it worthwhile for the cost?

Some of the reviews on mumsnet say their hospital list and consultant list is limited as they don't pay their consultants much.

We've had bupa for many years, it's always been worth it. I use it more than anyone else in the family but I've had two operations through it and countless other expensive procedures like MRIs.

Dh used to have it with work and we have just transferred to paying equivalent ourselves. We were able to access consultations and tests at Spire and Circle group hospitals.

I've had Bupa through work for years and I think it's excellent. Covers more than my husband's work. cover with another provider. I've never had any issue seeing the consultant I want or getting things approved and I've used it loads.

I have it through work and have paid to cover the rest of the family too. It's been great. DH has used it for ACL reconstruction and whole family has used it for stuff like physio.

We have family cover through husband's work. It's been totally worth it for us. Audiology and psychiatric referrals for kids which would have taken forever on the NHS. And more importantly speedy cancer referral for husband. Treatment underway before he'd had the letter through from the NHS for an appointment weeks into the future. That could have made all the difference between a stage 1 or stage 2 diagnosis.