Mark Allan: Commercial Director UK Insurance, Bupa: Private healthcare in the pandemic and beyond (157)

Health insurers have been on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have had to get to grips with the new peril of the COVID-19 virus, experience changes in demand and plan for the long term while adjusting to lockdowns and home working.

Mark Allan, Commercial Director UK Insurance at Bupa, joins Robin to discuss Bupa’s experience during the pandemic in the UK and what lies ahead.

Talking points include:

• The challenges of being a health insurer during a pandemic
• The long term impact of COVID-19
• Digitising customer access and engagement
• The challenge of legacy systems

Today’s podcast is sponsored by Fadata. Fadata has been providing software to the insurance market for over 30 years. Its modern insurance process platform, INSIS, spans the entire insurance product lifecycle for life, non-life and healthcare insurance. You can find out more about Fadata at www.fadata.eu.

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Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives

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The Learning Objectives for this podcast are:

• Understand some of the impacts the pandemic has had on health insurers
• Compare some of the ways that the pandemic has accelerated digitisation
• Recognise the potential of embedded insurance for health insurers

To continue learning about the impacts of the pandemic on insurance, read our insight Covid-19 - Insurance innovation your time has come.

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