23 Facts About Bupa

Bupa was established in 1947 when seventeen British provident associations joined together to provide healthcare for the general public.

Services offered by Bupa began as private medical insurance, offering policies to individuals, companies and other organisations, and eventually expanded to include privately run hospitals, outpatient clinics, health assessments, GP services, dental centres, digital health, aged care and other health services.

In 1982, Bupa International was launched to provide worldwide medical cover to people working outside their home country.

In 1989, Bupa acquired 'Sanitas' S A de Seguros, now Spain's second largest private medical insurer.

In 1997, Bupa entered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in partnership with the Nazer Group to form Bupa Arabia.

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In 2008, Bupa Arabia was listed on the Tadawul, the Saudi stock market.

Bupa Arabia is the leading health insurance provider in the KSA.

In 2007, Bupa completed the sale of its UK hospitals business to Spire Healthcare.

Bupa's rationale was that the scale of both its UK hospitals and insurance businesses meant that they were becoming increasingly constrained by being part of the same group.

In 2011, Bupa Australia brought together the insurance brands MBF, HBA and Mutual Community under the Bupa brand.

Bupa acquired the Amity Group of care homes in Australia in 2007.

In 2010, Bupa launched a partnership in India with Max India Ltd.

In 2019, Bupa completed the transition to a new partner, True North, while retaining a 44.

In 2012, Bupa acquired the largest private healthcare network in Poland, LUX MED, from the private equity fund Mid Europa Partners for €400m.

In February 2015, Bupa acquired a controlling share in Chilean private healthcare network Cruz Blanca.

In 2016, Bupa acquired Care Plus, a health insurance business in Brazil.

In 2017, Bupa completed the purchase of Oasis Dental Care, the UK's leading private dental provider with 380 practices, for £835 million, from Bridgepoint, a Private Equity group.

Bupa operates dental practices in the Republic of Ireland under the Smiles Dental brand.

In December 2020, Bupa Mexico announced the acquisition of BBVA Mexico's medical services provider Vitamedica.

Bupa has its global and UK head offices in central London.

Bupa has associate health insurance businesses in Saudi Arabia and India .

Bupa UK has been criticised by some judges, coroners and regulators regarding failures to meet regulatory standards in some of its residential care homes.

In 2018, Bupa UK was fined £1,500,000 after a care home resident died after contracting Legionnaire's disease.