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Bupa partners with the Ramblers

Bupa, the leading healthcare group, has teamed up with the Ramblers to help people live healthier lives through walking. The Ramblers is Britain's Walking charity, working to help everyone realise the pleasures and benefits of walking, and to enhance and protect the places where people walk, whether rural or urban. Walking can ...

Bupa Launches Its First Dental Insurance Product

Bupa is introducing a consumer dental insurance product for the first time, in response to high demand from customers. Dental Cover 10 and 20 from Bupa allow customers to choose whichever dentist they want to visit. Dental Cover 10 offers customers a full refund for NHS treatment* and market-leading oral cancer ...

Bupa Health Foundation and Alzheimer’s Australia Announce UK Availability Of Brain Health App

The Bupa Health Foundation and Alzheimer’s Australia have announced the UK launch of a world-first brain health app, the latest digital tool to help in the fight against dementia. Based on latest research that links brain health and a reduced risk of dementia, to a healthy heart and cardiovascular system, 'BrainyApp' ...

Bupa International Releases Health Guides To Hong Kong And Singapore

Bupa International has published two new health guides for expatriates in Hong Kong and Singapore. The guides include information on vaccinations, medical insurance and emergency healthcare. Expatriate health information is increasingly sought after as a growing number of people relocate to foreign countries for work. Information on healthcare in the East ...

Bupa Reveals Brits In Denial About Realities Of Too Much Drink

Bupa is warning Brits to face up to the realities of excessive drinking as research reveals that despite having one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world, they are the least likely to want to cut down their intake. The International Bupa Health Pulse survey which studied over ...

Bupa International Launches New Health Insurance Video

Bupa International has announced the launch of a new video detailing its international private medical insurance (IPMI) product. Bupa International, a global health insurance provider which gives its members access to more than 7,500 medical facilities around the world, has released the video to show how customers can use its flexible ...

Bupa Puts Real People At The Heart Of New Health Insurance Campaign

Bupa has unveiled its latest TV advertising campaign to promote its new health insurance product, 'Bupa By You'. The multi-million pound, integrated, through-the-line campaign launched on 5 September and promotes the adaptable and affordable nature of 'Bupa By You'. The direct response TV advert, direct marketing and digital advertising have all been ...

Pruhealth Becomes Nectar’s Exclusive Healthcare Partner

PruHealth customers can now collect up to 200 Nectar points and 10 Vitality points each week when buying £20 worth of healthy foods* during the weekly shop at Sainsbury's, under PruHealth's new and exclusive partnership with Nectar, the largest loyalty programme in the UK. Enhancing PruHealth's existing partnership with Sainsbury's**, the ...

Pruhealth Introduces New Sustainable Commission Model

PruHealth, the insurer that rewards people for engaging in healthy behaviour, has adopted what it believes to be a more sustainable and transparent commission model which rewards long-term partnerships with brokers and aims to deliver lasting client value. From April 2011, all Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) new business has ...

Bupa Care Homes Roll Out the Red Carpet for Cannes Film Festival

Bupa care homes residents across the UK rolled out the red carpet as they added a local twist to the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Altogether over 250 care homes, including dementia care homes, transformed rooms into in-house movie theatres and showed classic films, with staff dressing up as famous film stars, such as ...

Bupa Awards Free Places in Bupa Junior Great Manchester Run

Bupa awarded ten free places in the Bupa Junior Great Manchester Run to pupils from Moorgate Primary School in Bolton, Lancashire. Ten pupils from the school, situated in close proximity to Bupa's Mill View Residential and Nursing Home and Nursing Home were offered the chance to tackle the 2.5km course for free. Bupa ...

Bupa Announces Unhealthy Brits Cost Country Around £17.7 Billion a Year

Bupa has revealed that unhealthy Brits are costing the NHS, employers and themselves £17.7 billion every year through their lifestyle choices, according to new research from the leading international healthcare group. This figure could rise to almost £33bn a year by 2025 if current health trends continue. The study calculated immediate ...

Bupa Care Homes ‘Grow Their Own’ For Community Initiative

Bupa care homes' residents have their watering cans at the ready as they prepare to 'grow their own' for 'Community Crops'. 'Community Crops' is a Bupa care homes initiative which promotes the health benefits associated with gardening and growing your own fruit and veg. The project is being supported by young people involved ...

Bupa Care Home Residents Set To ‘Get Into Reading’ With Special Reading Aloud Groups

Bupa has joined forces with charity The Reader Organisation to encourage its care home residents to ‘get into reading’ with special reading aloud groups. The 'Get into Reading' groups will be piloted in eight Bupa care homes for six months from April 2011. Get into Reading aims to bring the benefits of ...

Bupa Care Homes Hold Communi-tea Week Celebrations

Bupa has held Communi-tea Week events in its care homes to help tackle loneliness in older people. Residents of Bupa care homes throughout the UK have brewed up some community spirit by inviting older people to join them for a friendly cup of tea. Altogether, over 300 care homes, including residential care and nursing care ...

Bupa Announces Results of Customer Satisfaction Survey

Bupa has announced the results of this year's Bupa Care Services Customer Satisfaction Survey. 74% of Bupa care home residents rate the overall standard of care at their Bupa care homes ‘excellent’ and/or ‘very good’. The results came from the annual independent survey of residents and relatives which has been running ...

PruHealth Reveals 39 Is The Age Brits Start To Worry About Health

PruHealth has announced that 39 is the age Brits really start to worry about their health, according to new calculations* by the insurer that rewards people for engaging in healthy behaviour. With thirty-something peers such as fitness-fanatic Gwyneth Paltrow (38 years) and channel-swimming David Walliams (39 years) showing vitality and achieving their ...

PruHealth Finds The Nation Believes People Should Take More Responsibility For Their Own Health

PruHealth has revealed new research that shows a third of Britons want people to pay for 'self-inflicted' health issues, two thirds believe the nation is unhealthier now than ten years ago and half expect the range and quality of NHS care to decline over the next few years. Two thirds (66%)* ...

Bupa Boosts Cancer Cover

In an industry first, Bupa, the leading international healthcare group, has announced plans to improve the quality of its cancer cover by no longer selling corporate health insurance schemes which feature overall cost or time limits for cancer treatment. Cancer treatment costs increased sharply in 2005 and 2006 due to the ...

Bupa Reveals the Average Brit is Cutting Life Expectancy by 12 Years

Bupa has revealed that the average Brit is at risk of cutting more than a decade off their life through unhealthy lifestyle habits. This is according to new research from the leading international healthcare group. The Bupa study assessed lifestyle behaviours such as smoking, alcohol intake, diet and exercise as well ...

Kim Richards Admits To Alcoholism

Much speculation encircled Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and previous child-actress Kim Richards this television season. On the show, it was clear Ms. Richards was struggling with issues in her life. Her erratic behavior caused her fellow cast members to accuse her of using crystal meth on screen. Kim Richards, as ...

Retired Brigadier General’s sobriety offers hope for soldiers

Not only did Vietnam immediately and physically affect now-retired Brigadier General Stanley Cherrie, the ghosts of the war have continued to haunt him decades later. After having his right leg, right hand and part of his left heel mangled by stepping on a land mine in Vietnam, General Cherrie began drinking ...

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