April 2007

Our travel clinic provides advice and vaccinations (where required) for our registered patients who are travelling abroad. Unfortunately we can't offer this service to patients of other surgeries. 

In order to obtain travel advice and immunisations all travellers should:

1. Collect from the health centre or download ALL these three documents:

   i) a Pre-travel vaccination disclaimer form

   ii) a General Travel Advice leaflet

   iii) a Pre-Travel Health and Vaccination Assessment form

    

2. Return the completed forms to the Health Centre. Please give us as much notice as possible, at least 8 weeks prior to departure is ideal.
    
3. Ring to arrange an appointment at least 2 days after submitting the forms (this will allow the treatment room nurses to assess the form and decide how long an appointment will be needed). This is your responsibility.

It takes time to give a course of vaccinations and they take a few days after the end of the course to become fully effective, therefore please book into the travel clinic well before you are due to travel.  Eight weeks or more is best. However we will always try and fit you in although there may be occasions where we just can't do this. In these instances you will need to visit a commercial travel clinic.  A number are listed at the bottom of this page.

Please note that there will be charges if you need any of the following because they are not available on the NHS;

• Rabies
• Yellow fever
• Malaria
• and a few other illnesses which will be notified at your appointment.

Also there are some obscure vaccines which we do not administer, and in this case it would be the responsibility of the patient to find out where they can get these. For example: Japanese Encephalitis and Tick-borne Encephalitis.

The following web site contains lots of useful information for people travelling abroad: www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk

If we are unable to fit you into our travel clinic due to a lack of time these are some commercial travel clinics in the region who may be able to help:

• Handsworth Wood Medical Centre
  110-112 Church Lane
  Handsworth Wood
  West Midlands
  B20 2ES
  tel: 0121 523 2522
   
• Droitwich Travel Clinic
  8 Kings Lane
  Broom
  Alcester
  Warwickshire
  B50 4HD
  tel: 01789 773813
  email: alex@greive.co.uk
   
• British Airways Travel Clinics
  101 Cheapside
  London
  EC2V 6DT
  tel: 020 7606 9584
   
• MASTA Ltd
  52 Margaret Street
  London
  W1W 8SQ
  tel: 0870 606 2782
   
• Nottingham
  Regent Street
  Nottingham
  NG1 5BQ
  tel: 0800 583 3331
  tel: 0115 947 5498 Please note:
  
  Please note: We have no links with any of these clinics. This list is provided for patients' information and does not represent any kind of endorsement of the service they provide.

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