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Press Releases

2010/2011 (click to view)

WPA tops up the cost of NHS Dental Care
(March 2011)
WPA has enhanced Providental, its leading standalone dental plan, to benefit NHS customers wishing to supplement their NHS dental care. NHS Top-Up
(November 2010)
WPA launches new ´NHS Supplementary Insurance´ that helps pay for the extras including free NHS parking. Julian Stainton, WPA´s CEO gives the background to NHS Top-Up
(November 2010) Briefing Note: Corporate Deductible
(August 2010)
Reducing the impact of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) on medical insurance premiums for large companies. WPA is accredited with ISO 27001
(April 2010)
The benchmark for protecting sensitive and valuable information.

2009 (click to view)

Industry Complaints Data published
(September 2009)
The Financial Ombudsman Service publishes complaints statistics about specific insurers. Complaints Statistics
(Annually updated)
Telephone Statsitics
(Live)
Your Rights to Treatment when you also pay for private care
(September 2009)
A simple summary of the legal position for Patients wanting to Top-Up their NHS care

2008 (click to view)

WPA wins again, for the third year in a row
(September 2008)
WPA´s NHS Top-Up insurance policy wins the Laing and Buisson Awards 2008 Introducing Health Top-Up
(June 2008)
An innovative and affordable NHS top up policy that complements today´s NHS

2007 (click to view)

Health Insurer of the Year
(December 2007)
WPA wins the Insurance Times Health Insurer of the Year Award. Legal rights to healthcare
(November 2007)
WPA seeks the legal views of Nigel Giffin QC as to people´s legal rights to healthcare in the UK. Mycancerdrugs wins!
(September 2007)
WPA recognised as Britain?s most innovative healthcare provider. mycancerdrugs
(April 2007)
A thoughtful new form of NHS ´top-up´ insurance giving access to life saving cancer drugs not available on the NHS. Cancer News
A series of articles commissioned by WPA giving a cancer update from an economic, social, medical and insurance perspective. Legal opinion
(October 2006)
Combining NHS and private treatment.

Press Release Archive

Previous press releases prior to 2007 can be viewed here.

Contacts

Charlie MacEwan Corporate Communications Director Tel: 07771 808083 Email: charlie.macewan@wpa.org.uk

WPA in the press

Painting over the cracks
(IFA Online 17 October 2011)

Put a smile on your face
(Daily Mail 05 October 2011)

Fat is an Economic Issue
(The Independent 18 September 2011)

NHS Healthcare - Change is afoot
(HR Magazine 09 May 2011)

Don't be caught by medical no-claims discounts
(Moneywise 24 March 2011)

WPA - streets ahead in technology
(Health Insurance Magazine 27 April 2011)

How we can sweeten the bill
(Daily Telegraph 25/01/2011)

PMI evolves in response to NHS cuts
(Financial Times 14/01/2011)

Now insurance companies offer cover for
£300-a-year NHS hospital parking fees
(Daily Mail 11/01/2011)

How to pay for the cancer drugs the NHS
won´t fund
(Daily Mail 17/11/2010)

Fund boosts patient access to new drugs
(Financial Times 29/09/2010)

Presentations

Defusing the Insurance Premium Tax Bombshell (August 2010)

Age is a killer - What the Politicians don't want you to know (April 2006)

Age is a killer. Can the NHS stand the cost of longevity? (March 2006)

The Demographic Healthcare Timebomb (Autumn 2004)

YouGov Health quarterly health trends survey