What Bupa did not tell Physio First during their meeting with them "Physiotherapists who provide domiciliary services only… we no longer recognise providers who are unable to offer members access to dedicated practice facilities and therefore to ensure we treat all physiotherapists fairly we will not be renewing contracts with clinicians who only offer home services”.

Did this affect your business?

Physiotherapist look out. It's been dentists and care homes and PTs should surely be on watch alert... Defcon 3

"Britain’s biggest provider of private medical insurance told staff in an internal memo last week that it planned to divide Bupa Health and Wellbeing into two separate business units: Bupa Health Funding and Bupa Health Clinics."

Bupa, which is the size of a FTSE100 firm, has diversified the business into care homes and dental practices internationally as well as its mainstay insurance business.This has paid off with revenues rising to £8.4billion for the year to December 31 from £8billion.

It has expanded its dental provision in Spain and the UK and is in negotiations with the shareholders of Dental Corporation – Australia and New Zealand’s largest dental business – to purchase its 190 clinics.

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