Important Conditions Relating To Your Health

You will NOT be covered under Section 1 - Cancellation or Curtailment Charges, Section 2 - Emergency Medical & Other Expenses, Section 3 - Hospital Inconvenience Benefit and Section 4 - Personal Accident: for any Trip where at the time of taking out or renewing this insurance You:

  1. are waiting for an operation, hospital consultation (other than for regular checkups for a stable condition) or other hospital treatment or investigations, or are awaiting the results of any tests or investigations; or
  2. have received a terminal prognosis; or
  3. travel against the advice of a Medical Practitioner or where You would have been if You had sought their advice before beginning Your Trip; or
  4. know You will need treatment or consultation at any medical facility during Your Trip; or
  5. are travelling specifically for the purpose of obtaining and/or receiving any elective surgery, procedure or hospital treatment; or
  6. are aware of a Medical Condition for which You have not had a diagnosis; or
  7. travel against any health requirements stipulated by the carrier, their handling agents or any other Public Transport provider.

Medical Screening Questions

In order to determine whether You need to contact the medical screening line please answer the 4 questions below by selecting yes or no.

Important

Not applicable if You reside in either the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man and Your Trip is to or within the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man. BMC Travel Insurance policies contain health restrictions. It is very important that You check if You can take out BMC Travel Insurance, and what existing medical conditions are covered under our policies.

Q.1

Within the last 6 months, have You been prescribed new medication or had a change in medication for any Medical condition?


Q.2

Within the last 12 months, have You, for ANY Medical Condition, been treated as a hospital inpatient or been referred to, or in the care of, a specialist consultant EXCEPT muscles, tendons, soft tissue injuries or fractures?


Q.3

Are You taking more than 2 prescribed medications for all Your Medical Conditions?


Q.4

Have You been diagnosed or treated for a malignant condition (e.g. cancer) within the last 5 years?