Category Archives: ALC Travel News

Blood Care Foundation goes to the Aid of British Student

The importance of having access to clean blood cannot not be over played, particularly when you are travelling or working overseas as was seen when Philip Pain, a Southampton University student studying Spanish in Mexico, fell from a 7th storey balcony and sustained multiple life threatening injuries.

The hospital had insufficient supplies of blood of his group, O NEG, and so the Blood Care Foundation (BCF) was asked to assist. Continue reading Blood Care Foundation goes to the Aid of British Student

Social Travel Craze – 15 Social Travel Websites

Whether or not you want to invest in social networks, I’m almost certain that you’re spending at least some time on them. And you’re probably even doing some travel planning on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and the rest reports the Healthy Travel Blog

We even gave you some helpful hints on how to use Pinterest to plan a trip a couple months ago. But that’s just dipping your toe into the Social Travel craze –  there are many other tools out there specifically built to make travel a more social experience … even if some of them seem to be forcing the issue like a bad dinner party. Continue reading Social Travel Craze – 15 Social Travel Websites

If you want active children you need to spend more time with them

Two studies in the U.S. have shown that children with “neglectful” parents are less active than those with engaged parents. The studies looked at different styles of parenting and whether they were associated with sedentary behaviour reports expathealth.org

Researchers found children who had parents who weren’t at home often and reported spending less time with their kids had, on average, 30 minutes of extra screen time per day. Children aged two to four were sitting for more than several hours per day. This was particularly worrying as at this age movement is essential for a child. These sedentary hours did not include naps or feeding times, only waking hours. Continue reading If you want active children you need to spend more time with them

ALC Health exhibiting at the AMII Summit 3rd July 2012, London

ALC Health has confirmed that it will be exhibiting at this year’s AMII Summit being held at the Royal College of Physicians in London on Tuesday 3rd July, bringing together the UK’s leading specilist domestic and international medical insurance intermediaries and insurance providers Continue reading ALC Health exhibiting at the AMII Summit 3rd July 2012, London

ALC Health awarded high marks in Health Insurance Magazine product review

Health Insurance magazine’s (HI-Mag.com) product review has awarded ALC Health PRIMA Premier plan an exceptional 8 out of 10, showing once again that ALC Health’s approach to creating international medical insurance programmes for expatriates and global citizens worldwide continues to set the standard for flexible cover at an affordable price. Continue reading ALC Health awarded high marks in Health Insurance Magazine product review

Travelers using drugs & alcohol could be left high and dry without travel insurance’

 

The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) is warning travellers that they could invalidate their travel insurance if they have an incident on holiday while under the influence of alcohol or non-prescription drugs when they come to make a claim.  BIBA’s research into 20 leading travel insurance policies shows a clamp down on drunken behaviour with all the insurers surveyed having some form of alcohol and drugs exclusion writes the ADVO Group blog. Continue reading Travelers using drugs & alcohol could be left high and dry without travel insurance’

ALC Health’s Andy Lindley begins marathon bike ride from London to Paris

Andy Lindley, a member of ALC Health’s Head Office client services team is cycling from Wembley Stadium Arch in  London (UK) to the Arc de Triumph in Paris (France) to raise funds for Help the Hospice between 14th – 16th June with a great start covering over 90 miles.

Leaving early morning at 5.30 Andy and his fellow riders  were thankfully ahead of the morning rush hour traffic with a fairly flat run through to their first stop in Chertsey. However this proved to lull everyone into a false sense of security as the remaining 66 miles were over and through the North/South downs on route to the coast, including the dreaded Beacon Hill.  Passing Haslemere in Surrey, Andy was tempted  to pop into one of ALC Health’s clients, Quin-Essence for a desperately needed rest but thankfully resisted doing so in fear of being asked to make another mid-term policy adjustment. Continue reading ALC Health’s Andy Lindley begins marathon bike ride from London to Paris