Whitbread appoints Bupa to provide health insurance to senior staff

Whitbread has appointed Bupa to provide 1,500 of its senior employees with private healthcare for the next three years.

Employees from Premier Travel Inn; Brewers Fayre; Beefeater and Costa Coffee will be receive a healthcare plan that includes bespoke medical cover and gives them access to Bupa’s specialist treatment centres for breast; bowel and gynaecological cancers.

Staff will also be able to use a 24 hour helpline manned by nurses and have access discounts on health; household; travel and leisure services.

Ruth Hutchison, reward director at Whitbread, said: “Bupa is an established healthcare provider with proven credentials, so our team members will be well looked after.”