Almost one in eight Britons now has private medical insurance, say healthcare analysts | Private healthcare
Almost one of each eight British now has medical insurance – the highest percentage since 2008 – with NHS care delays Height in people who use private health care.
The number of people covered by a special medical insurance policy reached the highest level of 4.68 million at the end of 2023, according to Laingbuisson private health care analysts.
Eight million people in the UK can now access the health care of the use of insurance, as soon as the couples, partners and children of document holders include. This represents 11.8 % of the 68.3 million UK population, the highest percentage in 12.3 % in 2008 – before the financial collapse raised a decrease in companies that pay a special medical coverage for its employees and members who choose this.
Four out of five out of 4.9 million documents – 3.8 million people – have been covered with a policy by the employer, while the rest took policies as individuals.
The recent increase in the use of private health care means that the total value of all medical and dental cover has reached a record number 7.59 billion pounds by the end of 2023, an increase of 6.76 billion pounds in the previous year.
“The rise in the persons covered by health insurance is driven by both the increase in the number of companies that take insurance on behalf of their employees, but there was also a rise in the number of individuals who produce their own policies .
“Given that we saw people’s satisfaction with NHS It has fallen in recent years, as well as the ongoing challenges in reaching both NHS diagnostic and treatment services, this height is not a surprise.
“In the past, people may have done healthy insurance because he provided the quality of service better than NHS. But they now appreciate more timely and grow more to pay for them.”
The special medical cover represents 6.15 billion pounds of the total market value of 7.59 billion pounds – an increase of 12.2 % in the previous year. The remainder of that consisted of people spent 1.05 billion pounds on teeth insurance – the first time that a billion pounds of pounds – and 435 million pounds on health cash plans, which usually cost 150 to 200 pounds per year and the availability of Access to private GPS and private diagnostic services, but not treatment.
Four large insurance companies – Aviva, Aksa healthLinoceon said that Buba and the vitality of health – they have 95 % of the private medical insurance market between them.
