Our nurses can provide travel health advice and arrange for appropriate immunisations. Please arrange an appointment for a travel consultation at least 6-8 weeks before departure if possible. Vaccines need time to take effect and some may require a course over several weeks.

Please note; if you require a Yellow Fever Vaccination you will have to arrange this with another Practice.

Select the region you are travelling to find out more.

Africa

Central Asia

East Asia

Australasia & Pacific

Caribbean

Central America

Europe & Russia

Middle East

North America

South America & Antarctica

The following websites will give you additional travel advice

Travel Health for information of vaccinations available on NHS

MASTA for private vaccination clinics

Gov.uk for specific country travel advice

EHIC to apply for your free European Health Insurance Card

other sources of travel information

https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home 

https://nathnac.net/

Travel advice is covered by the NHS; however some vaccinations and prescriptions are only available privately.

NHS travel vaccinations available:

• Polio (given as a combined diptheria/tetanus/polio)
• Typhoid
• Hepatitis A
• MMR (measles)
• Cholera (on prescription)

Payment for non-NHS services must be made in full BEFORE the first travel appointment is made.

You may require/want non NHS vaccinations (i.e. Meningitis ACWY, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies, Hepatitis B, Tick Bourne Encephalitis,).

Yellow Fever vaccines are NOT available at this surgery

Yellow fever vaccines are only available from designated centres.

If you require or request any of the following medications when travelling abroad , this will be issued on a private prescription at a cost of £30:00 each

Anti Malerias:    Malerone (or Generic)  /  Doxycycline

any medications requested to delay periods

PRESCRIBING MEDICINES FOR USE OUTSIDE OF THE UK

Antimalarials should not be prescribed on the NHS for prophylaxis” – DoH 1995 (FMSL(95) 7)

Patients should be advised that it is the patient's responsibility to find out if there are any restrictions on taking medicines either prescribed or bought from a pharmacy in and out of the UK or to the country they will be visiting. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) website (www.fco.gov.uk) has a full list of foreign embassies in the UK. https://www.nhs.uk/

Under NHS legislation, the NHS ceases to have responsibility for people when they leave the U.K. However, to ensure good patient care the following guidance is offered. People travelling within Europe should be advised to carry the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and everyone should obtain adequate holiday insurance cover.

Medication required for a pre-existing condition should be provided in sufficient quantity to cover the journey and to allow the patient to obtain medical attention abroad. If the patient is returning within the timescale of a normal prescription (usually one month) then this should be issued, providing this is clinically appropriate.

Doctors are clinically and legally responsible for any results of a decision to prescribe medicines. In view of this, it would NOT be considered good clinical practice to prescribe large amounts of medicines to a patient going abroad for an extended period of time and whose progress the GP is unable to monitor. Thus the maximum medication supplied to a patient travelling abroad will be 56 days supply AND that this is only on the understanding that their departure from the UK will be less than 3 months. 

Regulation 25, Schedule 5 of NHS (GMS services contracts) regulations 2004 states that “where notification has been received from a patient that they intend to be away from the UK for a period of at least 3 months then they should be removed from the GP practice list and only 28 days supply of medication can be prescribed". The GP practice should notify their local NHS Trust / Health Board. The patient should be advised to register with a local doctor for continuing medication (this may need to be paid for by the patient). It is wise for the patient to check with the manufacturer that medicines required are available in the country being visited