MetLife expands virtual GP service for Individual Protection

“A first for non-underwritten protection”

Jaskeet Briah
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MetLife is expanding its virtual GP service offering, provided by health company HealthHero, for all individual protection policyholders.

The provider is now offering a remote healthcare service, GP24, to all new Individual Protection customers as well as its existing 350,000 policyholders and their immediate family. The GP24 offering builds on MetLife's partnership with HealthHero which launched last year, and it will now be available across all of MetLife's individual protection products, which the provider said is a first for non-underwritten protection policies. At no additional cost, policyholders will now be able to access unlimited consultations with remote GPs at any time of day, with "flexible" and local prescr...

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