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Travel Vaccinations
Information and advice for travelling abroad
Travel Vaccinations
Important
Our travel-trained nurses run a weekly travel vaccination clinic.
- Appointments are limited and are booked on a first-come, first-served basis.
- We are unable to provide last-minute travel vaccinations or offer travel appointments outside of our dedicated travel clinic.
Please contact our patient navigator team to check availability
If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel, please complete our online travel form.
It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.
Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.
Vaccinations we can offer you
Please be aware that our travel service is only able to provide the following vaccinations:
- Tetanus, Diphtheria, Polio (combined vaccine)
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- We are unable to provide anti-malarial medication or other vaccinations that you may require.
- It is your responsibility to ascertain which vaccinations are required.
- Should you require additional vaccinations or medication, then this would need to be administered at a high street travel clinic/pharmacy and paid for privately.
General Practice sometimes is in a position such as during winter pressures or public health campaigns where urgent or immediately necessary care takes precedent over planned, non-essential care. As a Practice our management of risk would require us to decide which activities can be reduced to increase capacity for more urgent matters. Travel services would be one of those that may be considered for this.
Travel Information
Visit the following websites for travel health advice.
Fitness to fly in pregnancy letter
If you are over 28 weeks pregnant, your airline may ask you to get a letter from your doctor stating when your baby is due.
The doctors at Gloucester Road Medical Centre are no longer completing fitness to fly in pregnancy forms/letters. GPs are not involved in routine antenatal care in pregnancy and no longer have any access to the midwife clinical notes. Your midwife may be able to help you with the completion of these forms.