The price that you pay for private healthcare can vary wildly from health insurance company to company for a similar level of cover. Additionally, you can reduce your level of cover to create a cheap health insurance package tailored for you and your budget or increase your level of cover to get the most comprehensive medical insurance available.

So what is the cost of private healthcare?

In the current Flybe magazine (October 2007), the article The Health Tourist illustrates the costs with the different medical insurance providers for a fully comprehensive insurance policy:

* Data source - direct with each provider June 2007 - the premium quoted is an estimate only and that the actual premium will depend on individual circumstances.

As part of our commitment to your health and wellbeing, we have created a health issues section on the web site. In it, we will include various articles concerning general health matters. We had a request for information on Prostate Cancer and our chief medical officer Amrik Singh rose to the challenge and created a hard-hitting, factual paper on this disease. In it he includes the answers to questions such as:
What is the prostate?
What is prostate cancer and who is most at risk?
How does the doctor screen for prostate cancer?
Can diet help prostate cancer?
What preventative measures can I take?
Is there a cure for prostate cancer?
What are the treatment options?
Our private health insurance covers cancers, subject to the ususal conditions. Providing there was no pre-existing condition, then Freedom Healthnet would normally cover Prostate Cancer in all of their health insurance policies.

Freedom Healthnet was delighted to attend the Employee Benefits Exhibition 2007 in London. With our focus on employee medical benefits, we found it a very productive and exciting show and one we will definitely attend again next year. The quality of attendees and other exhibitors were second to none and we would highly recommend this to anyone within the Employee Benefits arena.
"Our first attendance at the Employee Benefits Exhibition 2007 was a huge success for Freedom Healthnet Ltd. In two days we were visited by over 250 people which included broker enquiries to sign agency agreements through to direct enquiries from Human Resource Personnel." said Business Partnerships Manager, Paul Oswick.

Freedom Healthnet is appearing in the inflight FlyBe magazine this month. In an article discussing The Health Tourist, FlyBe reviews how increasing numbers are going abroad for medical treatment.
Citing the fact that many people are concerned about UK hospital waiting lists, the article notes that the numbers of people visiting foreign countries for operations and treatment. With long NHS waiting lists and the cost of private healthcare going up every year, the appeal of affordable and superior treatment outside the UK is becoming increasingly attractive, the article states. The piece then goes on to point out how Freedom Health Insurance offers 'an appreciably simplistic approach to healthcare-protection plans'. It discusses how Freedom pays you money upon approval of inpatient claims and how you can then choose where to have your treatment. The FlyBe magazine article then indicates how there are no restrictions on treatment location and no limited list of hospitals, unlike other private healthcare providers. With Freedom you can have your medical treatment abroad. It indicates that often medical tourists will then have a holiday in the location of their treatment afterwards, as a way to enjoy the region and the sunshine and just relax.

The article points out the choices with Freedom Health Insurance:

• selecting to undergo treatment anywhere in the world
• seeking treatment at a private hospital in the UK as a self pay patient
• having your treatment at an NHS hospital in the UK
• the plan is sutiable for persons 18-75 years old
• current medical conditions are excluded and will be subject to underwriting (as with any policy)

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the bottle of Champagne raffled at the Employee Benefits Exhibition is Karen Potter of The Hood Group, Essex. Karen visited Rob and Paul on the stand at the show, where they were chatting with people about the health insurance benefits provided by Freedom Healthnet's Company Medical Insurance - including the possibility of being treated abroad, if they prefered!

Karen is being sent a bottle of Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin in a cheeky little Veuve jacket forthwith! Congratulations Karen - it was lovely to meet you!