Schizophrenia Travel Insurance
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder characterized by distorted thinking, perceptions, emotions, and behaviors, often leading to hallucinations and delusions.
Schizophrenia is a severe long-term medical condition that can have a massive impact on a person’s life. If you have schizophrenia, it’s important to tell your travel insurance provider about your condition – although you may find that many standard providers won’t then cover you.
Here at Free Spirit, we offer specialist holiday insurance for people with schizophrenia to help them relax and enjoy their time away.
Important Reasons For Insuring Your Medical Condition
With conditions such as schizophrenia, having travel insurance in place once you have booked a trip is vital. As soon as you take out your travel cover with Free Spirit, you and anyone else insured on the policy will be covered. This means that if you have a relapse and are unable to go on your holiday, you are likely to get the majority of your cancellation costs back.
Another major benefit of covering your schizophrenia with Free Spirit is that when you are on holiday, the travel insurance will cover the cost of any emergency medical expenses that you might need. Visiting a doctor or the hospital abroad can be really expensive, but it is vital that you seek treatment if you need it. Having holiday insurance means you don’t need to worry about any costs associated with doing so.
Another benefit that sets Free Spirit apart from standard insurance policies is that we cover you if you were to lose your prescribed medications whilst on holiday and need to obtain replacements.
Why Choose Free Spirit To Cover You?
- Most medical conditions and disabilities covered
- No upper age limit for most destinations on Single Trip and Annual Multi-trip policies
- Choice of several cover options
- Single trips covered up to 115 days (45 days if aged 76 years or over)
- Annual Multi-trip provides cover for any number of trips during the year – travel up to 32 days per trip (Standard and Super cover) and 45 days (Super Duper)
Get a Medical Travel Insurance Quote
With a Free Spirit medical travel insurance policy, you gain the peace of mind to travel knowing that you and your medical condition are fully covered.
Top Tips For Travelling With Schizophrenia
- As with all long-term medical conditions, it’s vital to ensure that you have your medication with you and that you have discussed your travel plans with your doctor.
- Although they are meant to be relaxing, going on holiday always comes with a little bit of stress, particularly with regards to travel. So, try to make as many arrangements beforehand as you can to ensure that your journey both there and back is as hassle-free as possible.
- If you are travelling alone, it’s worthwhile making someone at the place you are staying aware of your condition so that if you become unwell, they can get you the best help as soon as possible.
- Above all else, ensuring that you have travel insurance in place will give you the peace of mind to enjoy your break and have a wonderful time away.
How Can I Get A Quote For Schizophrenia Travel Insurance?
There is no medical involved and we don’t need to speak to your doctor. Instead, our friendly team of experts will simply ask you a few questions in order to be able to understand more about your schizophrenia and ensure that the right travel insurance is put in place.
To make you aware, here are the typical questions we will be asking someone seeking specialist travel insurance for schizophrenia:
- How many hospital admissions have you had for this condition in the last 2 years?
- Are you currently advised to take any medication for this illness?
- Have you been advised to take medication continuously for the last 2 years?
- Has this condition ever caused you to cancel or cut short a planned trip?
- Have you ever had a compulsory admission to hospital for this condition?
Please note, when applying online you may be asked to phone us so that we can ask you a few more questions about your medical condition.
Free Spirit ‘Super Duper’ level of cover has a 5 Star Rating
from Defaqto for both Single Trip and Annual Multi-trip travel insurance. This recognises that it is one of the highest quality offerings in the market.
Travel, With Confidence
Many standard travel insurance policies exclude cover for pre-existing medical conditions or will decline to offer cover. Here at Free Spirit, we can give you the peace of mind protection you need when you travel – just in case!
Free Spirit was the first scheme of its type dedicated to those being declined cover elsewhere due to their health. We’re now one of the UK’s largest specialist travel insurance providers for people with medical conditions and disabilities.
To get a quote, you can call one of our friendly UK customer service team on 02392 419 080. Or, if you would prefer, the whole process can be done on our website.
Customer reviews
″I wanted to commend you on a very pleasant customer service operator I spoke to regarding my travel insurance cover. Having numerous existing medical conditions, such discussions can be quite a stressful experience. However, your customer service operator made my enquiry for a quote much less stressful than I was expecting. I have been very impressed by your staff’s attitude and friendly manner.″