Medical Insurance on 1 Year Work Permit
 

We are going to NZ on a 1 year work permit and therefore won't be entitled to any publicly-funded health care except in emergencies. Does anyone know of the best insurance to have - I don't think we can use travel insurance when we will be working there?
Is it best to get expat insurance from the UK? Southern Cross etc unfortunately won't cover anyone on a 1 year permit. Plus I know that you pay for GP visits but these are still subsidised so will we have to pay even more than everyone else for these visits?
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Re: Medical Insurance on 1 Year Work Permit
 

We sent our eldest to Australia and New Zealand for a year - got our insurance through the Mountaineers society (you can buy the magazines in most major book shops, WHSmiths) it was by far the cheapest and it covers a full year.

Hope this helps

Re: Medical Insurance on 1 Year Work Permit
 

P.S. you don't need to be a member or into Mountaineering. We also gave the same information to 4 other families in the UK who's children were taking a gap year who had nothing to do with Mountaineering, they took out the insurance.

One daughter didn't come back though - fell in love with Australia and stayed