What is health insurance?
Health insurance, also known as private medical insurance, is cover that helps pick up the bill for private medical care for a future short-term injury or illness.
Take it out for yourself, your partner and your family. You can enhance or reduce your cover with optional add-ons depending on your budget or what is important to you.
Health insurance can offer more control over your treatment choices and help reduce how long you might wait for an appointment, to the diagnosis of a condition or surgery.
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The benefits of our health insurance
How much does health insurance cost?
It depends on things like your age and where you live and, if you’re switching to us, how many claims you’ve had. But you can control the features you have and don’t have, which can increase or decrease your premiums.
My Healthy Discount:
You could save up to 15% on your first year premium if you meet our health-related eligibility criteria. The discount will reduce over future renewals. Please view the My Healthy Discount terms and conditions for full details.
Renewal price guarantee
Take out a new health insurance policy with us, and we'll guarantee your premiums won't increase at first renewal if you haven't made a claim that's reduced your no claim discount level.
Who do we cover?
What does our health insurance cover?
Core cover
Benefits that come as standard with our health insurance:
Consultations and/or treatment with a specialist
Diagnostic tests
Hospital charges
Full cancer cover
Out-patient mental health treatment
With a choice of:
Expert Select
Guided hospital option
Key hospital list
Our standard list
Enhance cover
Enhance your cover with any of these optional add-ons. Choose from:
- Dental and optical
- Mental health upgrade – 28 days in or day-patient treatment
- Other treatment and therapies including osteopathy, physiotherapy and chiropractic
- Extended hospital list
- Protected No Claim Discount
Reduce cover
Reduce your premiums by removing cover you don't want. Here's what you can remove:
- Reduced out-patient options
- Six week option
- Member excess options
- Signature hospital list
- Trust hospital list
Enhance cover
Reduce cover
Your total wellbeing
The tools you need to make positive changes. Here's how our wellbeing services can be there for you.
MyHealthCounts
An online health and wellbeing tool that helps you find out how healthy you are. It could also help save you money when it’s time to renew your policy.
Aviva Digital GP
An app that gives you unlimited access around the clock to GP video consultations per member, per policy year, and repeat NHS prescriptions – at no extra cost ‡
Get Active
We’ll help you get fit and stay healthy with savings on gym services, discounted lifestyle products and offers at over 3,000 nationwide health and fitness clubs ‡
24-hour Stress Counselling helpline
If you’re stressed and want to talk to someone, experienced counsellors are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week (for members aged 16 or over)
Mental health support
If you're struggling with stress, anxiety or poor mental health, it can be difficult to get back on track. We can help by providing easy access to information, videos and articles,
on a range of topics ‡
Cancer Care with Get Active
You can benefit from savings on products and services that can help make a small difference if you or someone close to you is living with cancer. The service provides you with discounted products and services that can help with the daily living adjustments a cancer diagnosis and treatment can bring, as well as offers on services and experiences that may enhance quality time spent with family and close friends ‡
‡ These services are non-contractual and can be changed or withdrawn at any time.
Aviva Digital GP is powered by Square Health. It’s available if you’re a resident of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, at home or abroad. Terms and conditions and the privacy policy can be viewed in the Aviva Digital GP app before you sign up, and mobile data charges may apply.
Our insurance offers wide-ranging cover against illness, cancer, accidents and curable diseases. The language of health insurance can be confusing, and can mean very specific things, so here’s a guide to some of the key terms.
What's not covered
Health insurance FAQs
Do I need to renew my policy every year?
Does my health insurance cover me abroad?
Can I add others to my policy?
Are there any age limits to buying health insurance?
Will my health insurance premiums change every year?
Ready to get a quote?
Our Health insurance cover is just a few steps away.
What you need to get a health insurance quote
When you get a quote from us, we’ll ask for a few details, including:
- Personal information – such as your name, date of birth and address
- When you want your cover to start – today or a date in the future
- If you want to add anyone else to the policy – if you include a partner or children, we’ll need to know their details too.What type of cover you want – customise your policy by choosing add-ons and your hospital option.
- Any medical history – we’ll ask you to pick either moratorium underwriting or full medical underwriting, which deal with pre-existing medical conditions in different ways.
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Why choose us for health insurance?
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Other health insurance options and tools
Here’s how else you can protect yourself and keep an eye on your health.
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