Pinpoint Precision Now Available For Travel Vax and Anti-Malarial Planning

Visiting a far-flung or exotic place?  Going backpacking? Taking a cruise to various ports of call outside Europe or to parts of the Mediterranean bordering Africa or southwest Asia?   If so, do you realise you could invalidate your travel insurance policy if you do not have the ‘correct’ or ‘recommended’ vaccinations or anti-malarial treatments before you travel?

Working out what you need can be hard, take copious amounts of time on various websites and then still leave you confused – or potentially paying for travel vaccinations you don’t actually require, because ‘blanket advice’ is offered per country, not for individual locations.

Luckily this foggy situation has been revolutionised by a new, unique service from Pinpoint Travel Health.  This combines cutting-edge technology and data from leading sources, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), monitored and evaluated on a daily basis by top clinical experts within the Pinpoint Travel Health team.

With Pinpoint Travel Health’s ‘Travel Health Brief’ service (https://pinpointtravelhealth.com), you can check out your itinerary and potential vaccinations/anti-malarials, with pinpoint precision. 

Just fill in trip details, zoom in on your destination or places you will visit, right down to the level of an individual hotel, or use digital mapping to plot out an entire trip, if moving between locations, whether by land, sea or air.

Screening questions assess when you are travelling, to where, your age, your activities during your trip and any health conditions, including pregnancy, allergies and current medications.  All of this generates a personalised report, specifically for you and your precise trip, highlighting any diseases you could encounter and what vaccinations/anti-malarials might be suitable.

Just then take this to a travel clinic and they can sort out your jabs or medications.  The Travel Health Brief will even tell you which clinics are closest to you.

Costing just £15 for each traveller’s personalised report, it takes the uncertainty out of travel, helps keep your travel insurance valid and also potentially saves money on any unnecessary vaccinations. Head to https://pinpointtravelhealth.com to get your Travel Health Brief today.

Notes to Editors

1. 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.

2. Examples of travel insurance policy wording

The Post Office

Trip disruption exclusion:

“When your trip is cancelled or disrupted because you don’t have the correct vaccination or proof of vaccinations.”

Insure and Go

General Exclusions:

“You are not covered if you are not getting the vaccinations you need or undertaking the recommended preventative treatment (e.g. taking a course of malaria tablets).

Direct Line

“You must follow the advice given by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and your doctor for the destinations you intend visiting on your trip.  This includes getting all recommended vaccinations and taking sufficient supplies of your prescription medicine with you.”

Staysure

What is not covered

“Any claim where you do not hold the required confirmation of vaccination documentation, for example a vaccination passport. “

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Editors notes

PinPoint Travel Health is an advanced software-driven travel health and vaccination platform 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.