The company behind a network of specialist healthcare centres across the UK has launched a medical expenses plan for businesses, families and individuals that focuses exclusively on cancer.
Rutherford Direct is a membership scheme that offers access to advanced cancer treatment and care. It offers customised membership plans which are designed to ensure that those diagnosed with cancer are covered for the cost of treatment across a wide range of conditions and for treatment and care through various independent healthcare providers.
Rutherford Health itself operates a network of advanced cancer centres in the UK providing a range of treatments including high energy proton beam therapy.
In addition to funding care at those centres, Rutherford Direct scheme members will also be able to access treatment at other providers too.
Rutherford Direct offers a two-tier membership – for individuals and businesses – and has started accepting individual and corporate members. A Rutherford spokesperson said that both membership plans include a “comprehensive” cancer pathway, post-treatment medical costs, daily cash allowance, cancer support services and travel and accommodation, all within an “affordable” monthly cover plan. Membership plans start at £29 per month.
Mike Moran, CEO of Rutherford Health, said: “One in two people will get cancer in the UK and over 340 working-age individuals are diagnosed with cancer every day. It’s vital we continue to develop greater options for patients who often have to wait too long for treatment and to offer a healthcare plan that gives them reassurance and certainty that they will be taken care of as they deal with their illness.”