Submitted on Thursday 30th June 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 5th July 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ensure cancer patients are able to access affordable travel insurance.
Cancer patients are currently being denied valuable respite as they are unable to secure affordable travel insurance (or even any at all). The travel insurance industry must review its procedures around access to affordable insurance and establish a new model.
While many cancer patients are denied insurance due to their current or previous illness, others are quoted exorbitant fees for short breaks - including one patient recently quoted £7,000 for a two-week trip to Canada and another £1,000 for a week in Spain.
Some patients live with stable disease while many other patients who have recovered from treatment for aggressive types of cancer and are in remission are categorised alongside patients with active cancer and ongoing treatment.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about whether to offer insurance to people with pre-existing medical conditions, including cancer, are a matter for individual insurers, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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