Westfield in good health

HEALTH insurance provider Westfield Health has announced it has enjoyed a record year.

The Sheffield-based company is a not-for-profit organisation which employs 193 staff.

Westfield now has more than 375,000 policyholders and more than 9,800 companies operating a Westfield plan.

Chief Executive Jill Davies said: “The cash plan sector is very competitive but these results show that Westfield is growing in strength and focus to produce a range of innovative benefits and plans, which have been applauded by industry experts and welcomed by employers and policyholders alike.”

Ms Davies also announced that the company has been selected by the Institute of Directors (IoD) to provide an exclusive health cash plan for their members.

Westfield has also increased sales through each of its distribution channels, with intermediaries in particular showing growth of more than 55%.

This has followed the expansion of Westfield’s specialist Intermediary Sales Team and the success of the flexible quotation system Westfield Mosaic, which enables intermediaries to construct bespoke health cash plans.

Ms Davies said: “Our initiatives demonstrate that working hard to satisfy the expectations of our existing policyholders is central to Westfield’s operations. To achieve this our customer services must be exemplary and our benefits and plans responsive to the modern healthcare environment.”

During the year Westfield also won the prestigious ‘Best Healthcare Cash Plan Provider’ award in the Health Insurance Magazine Awards 2007 for the fourth consecutive year.

Formed in 1919, Westfield provides healthcare plans to some of the country’s leading organisations and blue-chip companies.