Bupa enhances online services for advisers

The new system will help make transactions even smoother allowing intermediaries to tailor Bupa's products to suit their clients' needs, and upload multiple product applications in one single action. Intermediaries will now be able to make policy alterations until a policy is placed on risk, arrange single or multiple start dates and direct debits for clients.

Steve Payne, director of Bupa Health Assurance said: "Our aim has always been to make our products as accessible and effective as possible for both intermediaries and their clients. Intermediary feedback has helped us to design a system which enables them to access our products in a menu-style format making administration simpler, quicker, flexible and more convenient."

Bupa's range of critical illness and income protection products have achieved five star ratings from Defaqto, a leading independent research company which rates products across the whole market.