Travel Clinic & Holiday Vaccinations

Vaccines

The practice will provide free NHS travel vaccinations, but only upon receipt of a full travel risk assessment from an authorised provider. This can be a Private Travel Clinic or a Pharmacy providing travel vaccinations. We will not accept written requests from patients.

The risk assessment will provide us with what vaccinations are needed.

Once the risk assessment has been received you will be booked into our travel clinic.

The following travel vaccinations can be provided for free on the NHS:

• Polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)

• Typhoid

• Hepatitis A

• Combined Hep and Hep B

• Cholera

The following travel vaccinations cannot be provided on the NHS and will need to be done privately if needed:

• Hepatitis B (when not combined with Hepatitis A)
• Japanese encephalitis
• Meningitis
• Rabies
• Tick-borne encephalitis
• Tuberculosis
• Yellow fever

Please allow plenty of time before travelling to get your risk assessment and book an appointment for vaccinations at the surgery.

Men ACWY

We offer Men ACWY to all for Hajj Pilgrimage or for Travel Visa Requirement, at a total cost of £45 per person, includes certificate required. The cost per person reduced to £40 for party of two or more travellers.

Healthy Travel Leaflet

You may find the following leaflet helpful when making your travel arrangements.

Advice on Malaria will be given.

Please download and print our useful guide below about Mosquito advice.

Hepatitis immunisation

Immunisation against infectious Hepatitis (Hepatitis A) is available free of charge on the NHS in connection with travel abroad. However Hepatitis B is not routinely available free of charge and therefore you may be charged for this vaccination when requested in connection with travel abroad.

Private Travel Clinics

If you are unable to wait for our next available travel advice appointment, as advised by the reception staff, then you can attend any Private Travel Clinic (you can obtain these numbers in the Yellow Pages see link below i.e. type in “travel clinic” then “your area”, to display a list of clinics) charges will apply at these clinics.

• Yellow Pages

Excess quantities of regular repeat prescriptions

Under NHS legislation, the NHS ceases to have responsibility for people when they leave the United Kingdom. However, to ensure good patient care the following guidance is offered. People travelling to Europe should be advised to apply for a Global Health Insurance Card.

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 their usual prescription, then this should be issued (the maximum duration of a prescription is recommended by the Care Trust to be two months, although it is recognised that prescription quantities are sometimes greater than this). Patients are entitled to carry prescribed medicines, even if originally classed as controlled drugs, for example, morphine sulphate tablets.

For longer visits abroad, the patient should be advised to register with a local doctor for continuing medication (this may need to be paid for by the patient).

General practitioners are not responsible for prescriptions of items required for conditions which may arise while travelling, for example travel sickness or diarrhoea. Patients should be advised to purchase these items from community pharmacies prior to travel.

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