Health Insurance Company Overview
AXA PPP healthcare offers you expertise, innovative products, service you can trust.
With over 70 year’s experience of providing private healthcare, AXA PPP have been helping people with their health and wellbeing for longer than the NHS. Together with their subsidiaries, Denplan and AXA ICAS, AXA PPP offer a total approach to health and wellbeing.
AXA PPP underwrite for many other well-known insurance companies, including Tesco, Saga, Secure Health, Halifax and Asda.
Health Insurance Plans
Below is a summary of AXA PPP’s most popular health insurance plans to help you find one that suits you.
Personal Health Insurance
AXA PPP has a range of budget, standard, comprehensive and prestige health insurance plans for personal customers to choose from. As well as prompt access to treatment and a choice of 250 hospitals, this cover also provides a 24 hour telephone health information service staffed by medical professionals, and a free online health and wellbeing website.
Child Health Insurance
First Healthcare from AXA PPP provides affordable private medical insurance just for children. It gives parents more control over where and when their child is treated, with immediate access to healthcare following diagnosis, and private treatment if the wait is more than six weeks with the NHS.
CashBack
Cash plans are a low cost and easy way to give you money back towards the costs of everyday healthcare. We offer a range of plans that can include money back towards the cost of everyday healthcare, such as dental treatment, eye tests and physiotherapy, cash benefits towards unexpected events like a hospital stay, access to regular health checks and the option to cover family members.
Business Health Insurance
AXA PPP offer a range of business health insurance plans to suit most budgets, which all provide prompt access to diagnosis to find what the problem is, eligible treatment when you need it and a choice of over 250 quality-assessed hospitals and 400 scanning centres.
Get a quote now for any of AXA PPP’s policies, or call for free personal advice from one of our health insurance experts on 0800 862 0373
Health Insurance Company History
| 1938 1940 | AXA PPP healthcare, first known as London Association for Hospital Services, was conceived in 1938 as a health insurance scheme for middle income earners in London. |
| 1941 1960 | In 1943 AXA PPP launched its Hospital Service Plan, costing two pounds twelve shillings a year. Membership was extended to the rest of the UK in 1950. |
| 1970 1980 | In the 1970s and 1980s the company launched a number of ground breaking initiatives. These included Family Masterplan, Private Hospital Plan and Retirement Health Plan, the first private medical insurance scheme for the over 60s. |
| 1990 2000 | AXA PPP was acquired by Guardian Royal Exchange, part of the AXA Group, in 1993. This year also saw the acquisition of Denplan, the UK’s leading dental payment specialist. In 1998 it launched its corporate scheme Back to Health. |
| 2002 | To reflect its new ownership, the company was renamed AXA PPP healthcare in 2002. |
| 2009 | AXA PPP healthcare International was created in response to the growing international market. |
Insurance Company Statistics
- The company began as a health insurance provider in 1940 as the London Association for Hospital Services, changing its name to PPP healthcare in 1961. PPP healthcare became part of the AXA Group in 1999 and was renamed AXA PPP healthcare in 2002.
- AXA PPP are ranked among the Sunday Times top fifty Best Green Companies.
- AXA PPP look after the healthcare needs of around 2 million customers in the UK and abroad.
- AXA PPP were awarded 1* Accredited organisation by Best Companies for our performance in employee engagement.*
^ Source: AXA
Company Contacts
Phillips House
Crescent Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 2PL
UK Tel: 0845 600 6722
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