Private medical insurance for individuals

Get a quote

You can either "Get a Quote" direct from the health insurance company or broker or let us submit "Your Health Insurance Enquiry" to up to five providers of health insurance in the UK on your behalf.

Questions to ask your health insurer

When buying affordable health insurance, you may want to ask some questions. Bupa have prepared a list of key questions to ask your medical health insurance provider, when choosing your affordable health insurance scheme.

Read the guide

Read our Guide to Private Medical Insurance. It can help you decide what individual health plan or family medical insurance you need, show you how to keep costs down and provides reviews of current products.

Product reviews

Our product reviews profile each product by type, using information from the providers and other publicly available resources. We provide a thumbnail sketch of each product:

• Types of cover
  Explains the basic types of health insurance available.

• Packages
  Where you have a fixed range of  individual or family medical insurance cover, with limited choice.

• Choice of Cover
  Where you can choose to build a policy from a wide range of options.

• Limited Cover
  Where cover is for a small number of illnesses/events.

• Shared Risk
  Where you can drastically reduce the price by sharing the risk with the insurer.

• Plans for the over 50's and the elderly
  Where cover is tailored for those who are aged over 50.

• Special Cover Plans 
  Ideas and innovations that cover selected risks, or are just unusual, such as health insurance for children, convalescence care plans, hospital treatment plans and major medical expenses plans.

• Health insurance for children

 

• Convalescence care plans

 

• Health insurance for people in HM Forces

 

• Hospital treatment plans

 

• Major medical expenses plans

 

• Medical savings plans
  

• Road Accidents

 

• Self pay protection plans
  

• Sports Injuries
  

• Channel Isles Plans
  For the specific requirements of Channel Islands residents.

• Membership Plans

Do we recommend policies?

We do not recommend any particular private medical insurance product or provider. We do not make judgement as to whether or not a policy, or any feature in it, is "good" or "bad".  Neither do we suggest which policy is best suited to you. Always check out the full policy wording before buying, and carefully read any documents that the insurers provide.

Our Product Profiles are independent. They are not written, or edited by, any insurer or other provider. We do not give them ratings or stars.

We have broken down the hundreds of private medical insurance policies on offer into specific categories to help you find your way through the health insurance maze.