HPIS : Cancer Care Plan

Product profile

Description

Provides a cash payment on diagnosis of cancer, helping you to concentrate on recovery, rather than worrying about how to manage financially in the short term.

Age

Maximum amount payable

£6000

Critical Illnesses covered

• Cancer

Not covered

• Any illness not specified
• Skin cancer - other than invasive malignant melomania
• Pre-malignant, non-invasive or in situ tumours
• Tumours of the prostate unless histologically classified as having a Gleason score greater than 6 or having progressed to at least TNM classification T2N0M0
• Lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma in the presence of HIV/AIDS

Benefits

• Cash sum on first time diagnosis
• Increased benefit for specific cancers
• Continuity benefit increases diagnosis benefit
• Hospital cash
• Surgical procedures cash
• Chemotherapy / radiotherapy payment
• Screening for return of cancer payment
• Reduced benefits for those over 65