Healthcare provider signs £200m contract with Bupa

HEALTH provider Benenden has signed a deal worth £200m over the next five years with Bupa.

Bupa has agreed to administer York-based Benenden’s personal healthcare products on behalf of the firm, and arrange diagnostic and treatment services for members.

Bupa will also become the plan provider for the Benenden cash plan products.

Marc Bell, chief executive, at Benenden, said: “This relationship we’re announcing today is significant in the healthcare sector, with two of its leading players coming together. It enables us to further improve the overall service offering to our own 900,000 members.”

“As a mutual organisation, our primary aim is always to use member funds wisely and to best benefit.

“Through the arrangement we now have with Bupa, Benenden is improving its value for money offering and we are able to provide our members with a greatly extended network of UK hospitals through which, they will have improved access to services closer to where they live.”

The relationship also sees the transfer of the Benenden Health Cash Plan, which provides additional cover for such things as dental and optical treatments, to Bupa.

All existing cash plan products, customers and claims were transferred to Bupa in July 2015.

Simon Chrisp, general manager, sales and marketing, Bupa UK, said: “The strategic relationship for the provision of local diagnostic and treatment services represents a great opportunity for both ourselves and Benenden.

“By administering the Benenden Personal Healthcare product, Bupa is able to give Benenden members access to the high quality healthcare they’re already used to, without them having to worry about paying for treatment out of their own pocket.”