Cruise Towards Better Travel Health Planning for Passengers

Cruise operators wishing to offer passengers the best possible health advice regarding required vaccinations and anti-malarials, have a new option - Pinpoint Travel Health (https://pinpointtravelhealth.com)

Pinpoint’s unique new Travel Health Brief service utilises cutting-edge technology and data from leading sources, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), to provide pinpoint precision within the travel health planning crucially required for cruise holidays.

Rather than simply offering cruise operators software managed by a web team, Pinpoint Travel Health’s data is managed and monitored by trained clinical professionals, on an ongoing basis.

It also allows for an itinerary to be checked with pinpoint precision, not just by country or region but right down to city, town or village level. Every geographical touchpoint that a cruising holidaymaker has, on land or in port, can be built into a personalised health brief. 

This adds accuracy and relevance to travel health planning and can avoid some of the pitfalls of ‘blanket advice’ on vaccinations and anti-malarials.  These include paying unnecessarily for vaccinations, when diseases are only actually present in some locations or in some seasons.

It can also help a cruise customer avoid invalidating their travel insurance cover.  Many policies specify that ‘recommended’ or ‘correct’ vaccinations and anti-malarials must have been taken up.  The issue is that many travellers struggle to ascertain what is actually needed.

With Pinpoint Travel Health, an individual’s Travel Health Brief is swiftly created.  All it takes is for the cruiser to fill in trip details, zoom in on destinations or places to be visited, or use digital mapping to plot out an entire trip, if moving between locations.

Screening questions assess when they are travelling, to where, their age, activities during their trip and any health conditions, including pregnancy, allergies and current medications.  All of this then generates the personalised report, highlighting any diseases they could encounter and what vaccinations and anti-malarials might be suitable.

Taking this to a travel clinic allows for all vaccinations or medications to be administered swiftly and without duplicate data input and wasted administration time.  The Travel Health Brief even details which clinics are closest to the traveller.

This can alleviate the possibility of cruise customers falling seriously ill during a cruise and all that implies in terms of having to arrange their transfer off the ship and appropriate repatriation to a hospital or back to the UK.

If a cruise operator becomes a client, Pinpoint Travel Health can assist in other ways too, producing guidance for the operator’s published itineraries, for instance.  Alternatively, if the cruise operator enters into an affiliate scheme, it can earn a commission on any Pinpoint Travel Health Briefs commissioned by customers and potentially also on a subsequent appointment with one of Pinpoint’s licensed clinics.

“Costing just £15 for a personalised report, the Travel Health Brief takes the uncertainty out of travel, helps keep a cruising customer’s  travel insurance valid and also potentially saves money on any unnecessary vaccinations,” says Pinpoint Travel Health director, Andrew Halliday. 

“If the cruise operator generally carries out the planning on behalf of clients, we can take that on board and reduce all of the pain-points, in terms of administration, data input and accuracy.  Bespoke solutions can be provided to individual operators, according to their needs.”

To find out more, contact Pinpoint Travel Health on support@pinpointtravelhealth.com

Notes to Editors

Company credentials

PinPoint Travel Health is a subsidiary of Personalised Diagnostics Limited (PDX), a company run by a team of professionals with over 120 years’ combined experience in maximising the use of IT technology within clinical systems and processes, to improve their effectiveness. Specific and significant experience has been acquired in the field of travel health.

Within the team are Andrew Halliday, Graham Hewitt and Harnek Chera.  Andrew and Graham first came to prominence on the travel health scene at MASTA Travel Health, as Chief Technical Officer and Managing Director respectively, and then joined forces with Harnek to deliver the award winning travel health service, Knowmalaria®.

The management team  also comprises Asif Aziz OBE, Director of Healthcare at Boots UK until a year ago.  Asif was awarded an OBE for services to pharmacy during Covid-19, in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.

Clive Minihan, a highly respected entrepreneur and co-founder of PDX with Andrew Halliday, completes the heavyweight line-up behind the exciting new travel health venture.

With this clinical expertise, specifically in the field of travel health, Pinpoint Travel Health is a trustworthy service, dedicated to providing the best possible travel health advice.  Offering more than just a data-driven platform, thanks to ongoing clinical reviews of information by the team, it is a source that individual travellers, families, pharmacies and travel clinics can all rely upon and one that operates to the highest independently audited standards.

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Editors notes

PinPoint Travel Health is an advanced software-driven travel health and vaccination platform, backed by top clinical experts, that helps any traveller stay healthy during their exploration of the world. It provides provides comprehensive and personalised Travel Health Briefs. These equip travellers with all of the essential information and recommendations specific to their travel destination, no matter how remote or off-the-beaten-track. it includes potential hazards associated with the destination or itinerary. It also lists all recommended and required vaccinations and uses advanced algorithms to check the clinical appropriateness of vaccines and antimalarials, so as to prevent unwanted drug interactions with existing medications.