Travel Advice & Travel Vaccinations

We would like to inform you that our practice has temporarily discontinued our Private Travel Clinic. However, we remain committed to the health and well-being of our registered patients and continue to provide NHS-contracted travel vaccines free of charge. These vaccinations include Cholera, Hepatitis A (it doesn’t have to be for the traveling purpose), Polio, and Typhoid.

Plan your vaccinations well in advance, following these guidelines:

Holidays: At least 8 weeks before your travel date
Backpackers and those working abroad: 3-6 months before your travel date

For those seeking private travel clinic services and personalised travel advice, we recommend searching the internet for local providers. Please note that private clinics may charge for travel advice consultations. We want to reassure our patients that our surgery has no financial affiliations with any local private providers. We do not endorse specific private clinics for any financial gain.

If you choose to visit a Private Travel Clinic, they will require the following information:

Departure and return dates
Countries to be visited
Type of stay (holiday, backpacking, occupational, etc.)
Allergies (You can access to your own online medical record from Patient Online Access Service or NHS App)
For female patients: pregnancy status or future plans
Vaccinations received in the past

Evidence of External Travel Health Assessment

When you have had a travel health assessment with another healthcare provider and have been advised to receive vaccinations from our Practice, please provide us with reliable written or electronic clinical information from the provider who completed your assessment.

This should clearly identify the healthcare provider or travel clinic and confirm the travel vaccinations that have been recommended following your assessment. Where available, it should also include the date of assessment, your travel destination(s), relevant travel details and any other clinical information used to make the recommendation.

Please note that a handwritten list of vaccines, or a verbal account of the vaccines you have been advised to receive, may not provide sufficient clinical information for our clinicians to safely administer the requested vaccinations.

This is because the clinician administering or authorising a vaccine must be satisfied that the vaccination is clinically appropriate and safe. When the travel health assessment has been carried out by another provider, our clinicians need sufficient reliable information to understand and verify the clinical recommendation on which they are being asked to act.

If you are unable to provide this information, please contact the healthcare provider who completed your travel health assessment and ask them to provide you with a copy of your assessment or vaccination recommendations.