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awaiting diagnosis and due to travel abroad ?

Is it possible to try another insurer? Maybe some will accept what is going on better.

Just a thought, anything is better than missing your holiday.

Angie
 
Hi. I agree that your GP is out of date. The Hba1c test is simple and low cost; you just go to the path unit at your local hospital, give some blood and the results come back in a few days. Sadly it seems your GP is confused about the ways to diagnose diabetes. I would try both a different insurers and perhaps tell your current insurer that you have been diagnosed with diabetes T2 even though it is borderline and they should just charge you the extra (small) premium?
 
I would rather miss a holiday than (a) travel without insurance or (b) continue to see an incompetent and inconsiderate doctor.

You're a patient and you have rights. That includes the right to an adequate standard of care (ie a doctor who knows the basics of their duty to use the correct tests for a serious illness like diabetes). It also includes the right for the doctor to understand that your holiday is now at risk (unless you see a different doctor/medical practice completely).

I would also recommend that you get your insurance sorted earlier next time. Leaving it until the last minute has caused you unnecessary stress IMO.

You already had some of the risk factors for T2 diabetes before this, and your doctor had a duty to regularly screen you for it. Hypertension is often diagnosed before T2 diabetes develops. Both conditions need careful long term management and they are interrelated. IMO you will also need to monitor your cholesterol levels from now on.

If this doctor messed up diabetes testing this much, can you really trust her with your life? We have to be able to trust our doctors to be competent.

I hope you exercise your right to choose a better doctor. If not, you can find good up to date information here about the correct testing and management of diabetes.
 
I take it from your posts you hadn't actually arranged your insurance cover before now? If that is the case have you checked your bank accounts etc to see if any of them have one of these packages attached that offer cover as part of the deal?

If you had already arranged your cover then it would be covered because you didn't have it at the time of inception of the policy.

Hope you get sorted, a salutory lesson for anybody booking an expensive trip, insure at the time you book the trip (not with the Travel Agent of course but independently) and then you don't have to worry about what happens in between times. To the OP - try ringing the helpline connected to this website as they have insurers involved who will insure diabetics.

Ali
 
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