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Travel Clinic & Holiday Vaccinations

The Practice no longer provides Travel Advice or Travel Immunisations.

  • Patients can access information on what vaccinations are required, together with malarial and safe travel advice at Home – Fit for Travel.  
  • Four Travel Vaccines are available on the NHS (Typhoid, Hepatitis A, DPT and Cholera) at no direct cost to the patient. 

Healthy Travel Leaflet

Please remember to allow at least 6-8 weeks to arrange your vaccination appointment before departure. If you are pregnant or have a child travelling under the age of 2 years you should seek advice and all vaccinations required from your journey from the travel clinic.

To make an appointment for a travel health risk assessment in Scotland, contact the NHS health board where you live. 

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

Malaria

Malaria is a serious tropical disease spread by mosquitoes. If it isn’t diagnosed and treated promptly, it can be fatal.

A single mosquito bite is all it takes for someone to become infected.

Please download our useful leaflet on Mosquito Advice

 Mosquito Advice

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

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.

Excess quantities of regular repeat prescriptions

A Scottish home and Health Department circular from 1971 clarifies the position on prescribing for patients going abroad for extended periods. It states:-

“If a patient intends to go away for a longer period(than two to three week’s holiday) he/she may not be regarded as a resident of this country and would not be entitled to the benefits of the National Health Service…. It may not be in the patient’s best interest for him/her to continue to self-medication over such longer periods…. If a patient is going abroad for a long period, he/she should be prescribed sufficient drugs to meet his/her requirements only until such time as he can place himself/herself in the care of a doctor at his/her destination.”

Where ongoing medical attention is not necessary, the patient may be given a private prescription.

Useful Links

NHS Inform Travel & Vaccination Guide

www.fco.gov.uk/travel

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

www.lonelyplanet.com

Lonely Planet’s website

www.istm.org

International Society of Travel Medicine

www.diabetes.co.uk/travel

Health Advice for the Diabetic 



www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk


Fit for Travel – an NHS site written at the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health

www.masta.org

Medical Advice Services for Travellers Abroad

www.travelhealth.co.uk

UK travel health – site developed by a nurse

www.cdc.gov/travel

Centre for Disease Control – in Atlanta

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