Health insurance company adds online hospital finder

Innovative health insurance company PruHealth has launched an exciting website feature. Now, visitors to the medical insurance website will be able to use an interactive hospital finder tool, which displays a list of nearest hospitals by destination based on the postcode of the visitor.

The new tool provides information about the distance to the hospital, and also lists a variety of useful health information about the hospital. Similar tools are offered by private medical insurance companies such as AXA PPP Healthcare, Bupa and Standard Life .

The online hospital finder helps patients to understand where healthcare facilities are located, and could have a role to play for customers with medical insurance policies . Many private health insurance policyholders choose this type of insurance to make sure they can be treated quickly and conveniently at a private hospital of their choosing. This, coupled with the perception of better hygiene in private hospitals, is what attracts many people away from the National Health Service.