Individual Insurance

To what extent do group and individual covers differ?

When you move from employer-financed insurance to purchasing your own insurance, you will find this information useful. The sickness insurance offered to workers by an employers or an organisation to its members is referred to as group insurance. If you take out your own insurance policy - not via an employers or an organisation - it is referred to as individual insurance.

What does it mean to you when you switch from group cover to single cover? When you have had employer-funded cover, you are probably used to certain things. Can your employer: If, for any reasons, you are no longer covered by your employers, you still need medical insurance. This means that many individuals have to take out individual medical insurance.

You can find further information under Is individual insurance suitable for me? Contrary to conventional employers funded insurances, now you will do it: The number of staff may vary according to the services provided by group and individual schemes. The same 10 key healthcare services are provided for all individual and corporate medical insurances with less than 50 full-time equivalents.

However, if your employers have 51 or more full-time equivalents, they will have more influence on what your plans do and do not do.

Single Singles Health Insurance - Individual Health Insurance Plan

No matter what you do, no matter where you are, no matter how you are playing... we have hospital and extras insurance for you that fits your needs and your budgets. Combine hospital and extras insurance or choose from the range of packs that both already contain to get the perfect individual medical coverage for you and your life style.

Well, what's my medical record? Select the best description of your needs below. Every section has a dropdown list of suggestions to help you determine which insurance policy is right for you. You are young, in shape, healthy, plan not to have kids and are looking for a reasonably affordable insurance.

You take care of your own healthcare and your careers are in progress. You want something more than just the basic medical insurance. Please review our terms and conditions (PDF, 179Kb) before you decide to join any of the Bupa hospitals or optional services.