If you are going abroad please contact the surgery to check whether you will need any travel vaccinations or book an appointment with our dedicated travel nurse. Initially you will need to carry out a risk assessment on your travel plans, proposed itinerary and review any vaccinations needed. This may also include whether or not malaria prevention tablets are also necessary.
Travel Questionnaire
You will be given the option of providing your travel information via email or by a printed hard copy via the surgery reception, and a nurse will subsequently advise you via telephone call, or text SMS message in response to this. You will then be advised what vaccines are recommended for your trip, and the amount of time that you are likely to need for your travel appointment at the surgery, if necessary.
Further appointments may need to be made after this in order to provide further vaccinations. Please complete the Travel Vaccination Questionnaire form below
Vaccines offered
- Hepatitis A (infectious Hepatitis) first and second/booster doses
- Combined Hepatitis A & B two doses with a third for over 16s
- Typhoid first and second/booster doses
- Combined Hepatitis A and Typhoid first and second/booster doses
- Tetanus, Diptheria & Polio as given in the combined Td/PV vaccine
- Cholera
- Yellow Fever
- Japanese B encephalitis
- Tick borne encephalitis
- Rabies
For more information about travel vaccines go to the Fit for Travel
Non-urgent advice: Patient responsibility
The responsibility for all aspects of preparation for travel abroad must remain with the individual. We offer travel advice and the necessary injections in our travel clinics run by our practice nurse.
We only offer the free NHS vaccines. Some additional vaccines you may have to attend a local travel centre and will need to pay for these.
Immunisations can take weeks to become effective so in order to ensure enough time for this it is advisable to contact the practice well in advance of your planned departure, at least 8-10 weeks prior to travel. For those with a complicated itinerary or who are intending to go ‘back-packing’ we would recommend contacting us several months in advance if possible.
*If you go abroad regularly please discuss this with a nurse as it may be possible for you to gain long-term immunity by having follow-up immunisations.