BUPA'S The New Name In Home Healthcare

Main Category: Caregivers / Homecare
Article Date: 01 Dec 2008 - 1:00 PDT

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The UK's most experienced home healthcare provider, Clinovia, is changing its name to make the range of services that it provides clearer to customers and patients. From 1 December 2008 the company, which provides comprehensive home healthcare for more than 9,500 NHS patients a month with a wide range of medical and chronic conditions, will be known as Bupa Home Healthcare.

The move reinforces Bupa's commitment to meeting the growing demand for high-quality home healthcare services both from the NHS and the private sector. It comes two years after the company was acquired by Bupa and marks the completion of its integration into the worldwide health and care group.

Managing director of Bupa Home Healthcare, Steve Flanagan, said: "The name may be changing but our determination to provide the highest quality care for our patients, so that they can enjoy a better quality of life, remains at the heart of what we do.

"Having Bupa's resources, wide expertise and brand behind us undoubtedly brings major benefits to the business and its future success.

"Bupa has no shareholders so it reinvests surpluses into providing even better care - and that is good news for our patients, our customers and our people."

Clinovia has a total of 32 years' experience in home and community care and Bupa Home Healthcare's key objective remains the same: To be the homecare provider of choice for all NHS and private customers.

During the week beginning Monday 1 December, Bupa Home Healthcare staff at its bases in Harlow, Derby and Glasgow, will be taking part in a range of activities to celebrate their second anniversary of joining the Bupa group and their new name.

About Bupa

Bupa is the UK market leader in health and care with a strong international presence. Established in 1947, it has around 10 million customers in almost 200 countries and more than 49,000 employees. Its main interests are health insurance, care homes for older people and young disabled, home healthcare, health assessments, workplace health and childcare services. Bupa Travel offers a bespoke travel insurance service. Sanitas in Spain, MBF, HBA, Mutual Community in Australia and DCA Agedcare in Australia and New Zealand, IHI in Denmark and Health Dialog in the US are all part of the Bupa Group which also has centres in Hong-Kong, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. Bupa is a company limited by guarantee and does not have a share capital. As a result, it can focus on its customers, helping them to live longer, healthier lives and can reinvest all of its profits to do this - this is the dividend that Bupa provides.

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Kevin Mochrie
Bupa Corporate Communications
http://www.bupa.com

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