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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Red_Fox22" data-source="post: 2728670" data-attributes="member: 393690">HelloAn exciting opportunity has landed in my lap involving a move from the rainy, over taxed and depressing UK to the sun kissed island of Bermuda. There are a couple of concerns from a health perspective:1.  The work permit/visa requires a health check up.2.  It looks as if my employer's health cover would subsidise the costs of insulin and glucose monitors but would specifically exclude cover in relation to diabetic complications. So I would need to pay privately if anything did go wrong which wont be cheap.On point 1, I am fairly relaxed about this, this seems to be more of a check for contagious diseases and I doubt my T1D would prevent a work visa being granted.Point 2 is more of a worry, I have private medical cover in the UK whom I could approach and see if they would extend cover to Bermuda but I think that is a long shot.  I suppose I would always move back to the UK if things went badly wrong and benefit from the NHS treatment but that seems extreme. Moves offshore must happen for people with T1d so was just wondering what experience if any people have.</blockquote>

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