Travel Clinic

Sister Fordham

We will be happy to advise you on immunisations and other preparations necessary to ensure your holiday abroad is a healthy one.

How do I access the Travel Clinic?

Risk Assessment Form

Advice Leaflet

The Travel Risk Assessment Form needs to be completed and returned to the surgery before you can book your appointment.

Travel vaccines can be very complex and numerous factors have to be taken into consideration when giving travel advice and vaccinations. To help the Travel Nurses assess your travel needs it is important that they are in receipt of the risk assessment form prior to your appointment.

Travel Clinic Appointments

Please allow as much notice as possible when booking your Travel Clinic Appointment.

Even if several weeks notice has been given, it may be that travellers requiring several vaccinations will need to go elsewhere to obtain some of their vaccinations.

If you require travel advice and injections, you will need to complete a Risk Assessment Form prior to attending your initial assessment appointment.  This Risk Assessment Form can be downloaded from this site or collected from Reception.

Failure to attend Appointment

If you fail to keep your travel clinic appointment without giving adequate cancellation notice, you will not be able to book a further Travel Clinic appointment at the Porch Surgery. See other options below.

If you are travelling within the next 8 weeks and need to obtain Travel advice/vaccines from an alternative source, some other options available are:

Do I have to pay?

There is a charge for some holiday vaccinations – please see the Risk assessment form

There are also plenty of good sources of information available on the internet and we would recommend the following:

             FIT FOR TRAVEL

• International Travel and Health Page
• Foreign Office Travel Advice
• Health and Advice for Travellers
• Department of Health Advice for Travellers
• Immunisation Guide
• Yellow Fever Immunisation
• Tetanus Immunisation
• Polio Immunisation
• Hepatitis A Immunisation
• Anti-malarials

Vaccination Charges

Some vaccinations are free of charge, others will incur a fee and others will involve you taking a private prescription, for which there is a £20.00 charge per patient per prescription to the chemist (note that the chemist will also charge for the cost of the vaccination and the dispensing costs).