Post Office: Travel insurance is "vital" for health tourists

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Post Office: Travel insurance is "vital" for health tourists

The Post Office has warned 'health tourists' planning to travel abroad for medical treatments to ensure they have the right level of insurance.

Its research revealed that the industry is growing at a rate of around 30 per cent a year, with over 70,000 people heading overseas for cosmetic surgery or elective medical treatments in 2007.

However, it also found that over 25,000 of those put themselves at risk by failing to take out adequate travel insurance cover.

Around one in five respondents said it simply had not occurred to them to check their policy, while 16 per cent assumed they would be covered for things like additional periods of hospitalisation resulting from the procedure and replacement flights if their trip was extended.

Helen Warburton, head of Post Office Travel Services, stated that its standard policy does not cover pre-planned medical or cosmetic surgery, so it is "vital" that people purchase additional specialist cover.

"This will provide peace of mind should anything go wrong," she said.

Sainsbury's Finance informed people last week that they could invalidate their insurance policies if they knowingly give false information to their provider, after its research revealed that 1.12 million people do so.
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