Corporate Traveller partnering with Doctor Care Anywhere
Flight Centre Travel Group’s (FCTG) corporate brand, Corporate Traveller, is partnering with Doctor Care Anywhere to provide its smartfly travellers with access to virtual GP appointments.
Corporate Traveller, which manages business travel programmes for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is partnering with Doctor Care Anywhere for a pilot project to provide its UK customers with fast and convenient access to a GP when they are abroad. The Doctor Care Anywhere service will be provided to 10,000 Corporate Traveller smartfly customers, enabling them to speak to a UK-trained, English-speaking GP wherever they are in the world.
The service will be available for the first 10,000 international flights booked by Corporate Traveller clients and bookings must take place between 1 March and 31 May, travelling on Virgin Atlantic (premium and upper class) and Etihad (business and first class) flights.
“While abroad many travellers won’t go to a doctor or a hospital for reasons such as language barriers, difficulty navigating a foreign health system, or a busy schedule,” said Graeme Milne, Corporate Traveller’s general manager. “We also recognise that our clients have a duty of care to their travelling employees, are invested in their wellbeing, and benefit from their maintained productivity. It’s for these reasons [that] we want to ensure that our clients have a safe and pleasant experience throughout all aspects of their journey, which is why we are working with Doctor Care Anywhere”.
Kate Newhouse, CEO of Doctor Care Anywhere, said that the partnership will provide thousands of customers with the security and peace of mind of knowing that they have access to primary healthcare expertise at the click of a button: “We are hugely excited to be working with Corporate Traveller on this project to ensure that if customers are in need then they can speak to a UK-trained GP irrespective of their location.”