sure you’ve taken out adequate travel insurance. As of April 2010, the
reciprocal health agreement between Britain and the IoM is ending, so UK
visitors to the Island will be liable to pay for any healthcare they
receive outside of A&E departments. This means any rider unlucky enough
to be in an accident requiring overnight hospitalisation or longer could
be in line for a big bill unless they have travel insurance to cover it.
Penny-pinching from the UK government seems to be behind the collapse in
the arrangement, but there’s still a chance to overturn the decision. An
online petition has been launched to protest against it: go to
http://petitions.number10 .gov.uk/HealthcareIOMUK/ to sign up but
hurry – the deadline to sign it is 11 March 2010.