Rejected petition 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.

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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.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

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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Date submitted 30 June 2022
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