Bupa took home multiple Highly Commended awards for its extras cover in the 2026 Finder Awards.
Congratulations, Bupa!
Each month we analyse over 10,000 hospital and extras insurance products and rate each one on price and features. What we end up with is a nice round number out of 10 that helps you compare products a bit faster.
Before we start scoring, we need to make sure we're comparing like-for-like. Just as it doesn't make sense to compare a toy car with a Porsche, it doesn't make sense to compare basic policies to top-tier gold policies. Each policy is given a price score and feature score. These are then combined to determine each policy's Finder Score. Read our full methodologies of how we calculated Finder Score for hospital cover and extras cover.
We looked at the 2023 Ombudsman health insurance complaints. Here's how Bupa stacked up:
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