Drs Price, Lethem, Griffith, Hunter, Wallam and Wilcox

Travel Health

If you are planning to travel abroad at all then it is important that you consider making an appointment to discuss the health implications of your trip.

The immunisations which you  may need for your stay could take several weeks to become fully effective and some require a  course over a period of 4 weeks or more.  Similarly most antimalarials need to be started well in advance of your trip.  The sooner you come and see us the better.

Our trained Practice Nurse will advise you on the necessary immunisations and anti-malarial precautions, together with any other tips to make your stay healthy.  Please download and complete our Travel form and bring it to your appointment with you.

Before your trip it is important that you gather as much information as possible.  Below you will find links to some useful websites and we recommend that you take a look and download the relevant information as we cannot provide this in all cases.

Consider such things as:

• Insurance
• The local culture of the country or countries that you are visiting
• What to take in a first aid kit
• Whether or not the water supply is safe and what you can do to lessen your risk if it is not
• Food safety
• Common traveller illnesses such as diarrhoea and vomiting and sunburn – take time to find out how to protect yourself and what to take to treat yourself it you suffer from these during your trip
• How to treat insect bites
• Whether or not you need anti-malarial tablets
• If you will be travelling to high altitude and what you can do prevent altitude sickness

Our travel clinic is provided as an NHS service at present and is therefore at no cost  to you,  however some immunisations which you may require are chargeable and we do ask for payment in  advance, so please bring adequate funds with you.  We can accept payment in cash or by credit/debit card.

Full details on the cost of vaccines are detailed below.

Cholera (Dukoral)	Available on NHS prescription where required to registered patients
Combined Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio	Free
Combined Hepatitis A + B	Free
Combined Hepatitis A + Typhoid	Free
Hepatitis A	Free
Hepatitis B	£42 per dose
Japenese Encephalitis	£70 per dose
Meningitis ACWY	£55.00
Rabies IM route	£47 per dose
Typhoid	Free
Yellow Fever	£55.00
Certificates (Duplicates)	£15.00
Malaria - Chloroquine 20 tabs	On private prescription £7.00 + cost of tablets at pharmacy
Doxycycline 50 tablets	On private prescription £7.00 + cost of tablets at pharmacy
Mefloquine (Lariam)	On private prescription £7.00 + cost of tablets at pharmacy
Malarone Paediatric	On private prescription £7.00 + cost of tablets at pharmacy
Paludrine/ Chloroquine Pack	On private prescription £7.00 + cost of tablets at pharmacy
Paludrine	On private prescription £7.00 + cost of tablets at pharmacy