Having a diagnosis of heart failure is stressful enough. It creates ripples far beyond your personal life and impinges on your lifestyle and how it use to be. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation quickly identified this as an area we would like to try and fix or at least give HOPE to people who struggle to get insurance coverage through the mainstream insurers.
We listened to doctors and nurses as to the type of questions patients were asking about going on holiday, we then went our there to find a provider.
We felt that instead of recommending a single provider, why not make people aware of a comparison website where you have a choice of which insurer you decide to use.
Before you progress, please read our booklet “My Marvellous Guide to Travelling with Heart Failure” which you will find in our Patient Academy.
If you are planning a holiday, ensuring you have travel insurance is an absolute must!
If you were to go away without cover, and the worst should happen, you could run into bills costing tens of thousands of pounds. Making sure you have the right cover for your condition, and at an affordable price, will give you and your family peace of mind.
A specialist travel insurance comparison site, such as www.medicaltravelcompared.co.uk, can help as they are designed
specifically for people with pre-existing medical conditions, including heart conditions.
By answering a few quick questions online, they’ll compare quotes from over 40 insurance providers, so you don’t have to. Whether you’re struggling to get cover based on age or medical history, or perhaps you’re looking for a better quote, they can give you a choice.
We do not recommend any insurer. You can search the many insurance sites now available to find the right policy for you as we believe you should have a choice.
Every purchase through Medical Travel Compared means that the Pumping Marvellous Foundation receives 20% of your total policy after IPT (Insurance Premium Tax). e.g. Policy Value is £100; the Pumping Marvellous Foundation receives £16. This helps us provide patients and their families with valuable information to help them live better with heart failure.
If you are planning a holiday, ensuring you have travel insurance is an absolute must! If you were to go away without cover, and the worst should happen, you could run into bills costing tens of thousands of pounds. Making sure you have the right cover for your condition, and at an affordable price, will give you and your family peace of mind.
Using a specialist travel insurance comparison site, such as www.medicaltravelcompared.co.uk, can help as they are specifically for people with pre-existing medical conditions, including heart conditions. By answering a few quick questions online, they’ll compare quotes from over 40 insurance providers, so you don’t have to.
Whether you’re struggling to get cover based on age or medical history, or perhaps you’re looking for a better quote, they can help give you that choice.
Additional Information for post Brexit and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yes – you can! With the introduction of the government’s new traffic light system, and many countries opening their borders to Brits, travel insurance must be a key consideration when booking a holiday.
The most important thing to check is still the advice of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). If at the time of your trip, the FCDO is advising against travel to your destination, then any travel insurance cover you have in place will no longer be valid.
This information is supplied by Medical Travel Compared – “As a minimum, we’ve ensured that every travel insurance provider available through our site now includes emergency medical cover, including repatriation, for COVID-19. If you fall ill with COVID-19 whilst on holiday, and require treatment, you’ll be able to get help with the medical costs or even be brought home for medical treatment if required.
Some of our travel insurance providers are also able to offer Enhanced COVID-19 Cover, including some cancellation protection. We’ll make it clear which policies they are and, depending on your policy. The specifics of the cover will vary from provider to provider, so it’s important that you check your policy wording thoroughly.”
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So, what’s your “Secret Sauce?” What makes you tick?
At Pumping Marvellous, we know it takes some real inner drive to live well with heart failure. Pumping Marvellous are Secret Sauce catalysts; we draw out people’s inner Secret Sauce, people’s superpowers and enable other people to learn from other people’s experiences.
We are the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, the UK’s heart failure patient-led charity. Find out more about why we do what we do.
The Pumping Marvellous Foundation are a UK patient led heart failure charity. To find out how you can get involved click below.
The Pumping Marvellous charity shop is full of our own branded merchandise. By purchasing our merchandise, you will help us fund our projects.
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