Travel Health.

• Review of travel plans and assessment of needs
• Advice and plan on maintaining general health
• Advice and prescription on malaria prevention
• Appropriate immunisations
• Travel vaccination Card provided
• Appointments

Please ring reception and request appointment for travel health advice or required immunisation if known

• Appointment will be given for practice nurse who will take history
• Patient will have consultation with doctor to finalise plan and needs
• Required immunisations will be given
• Follow up plan will be organised

Vaccinations constitute only one part of the plan to prevent disease when you are travelling. For general information and the overall package to consider when travelling overseas, please refer to the websites given under “websites” on the travel section of this site.

The following immunisations are available from the Belgrave Clinic

• Yellow Fever – Clinic licensed to offer this.
• Tetanus and Diphtheria
• Polio
• Typhoid
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Meningitis Type A
• Rabies
• Hepatitis A + Typhoid can be given as one injection Hepatitis A + Hepatitis B can be given as one injection

For detailed information on these diseases and vaccinations, please consult : http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel

Ideally, it is best to present for your vaccinations and advice some 6 weeks before departure date to ensure that all vaccination courses can be completed before travel.

If you plan to travel in Europe, understand that you are free to avail of public health care when travelling, if you have a European Health Insurance Card. Make sure you get one.  Download it here.

We have chosen the following 7 websites, from the long list of travel health sites, as being the most helpful and easy from which to get useful information:

www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk is an excellent Scottish NHS site. Find your destination on an a-z list of countries.Good general information.

www.malariahotspots.co.uk is an excellent site on all aspects of malaria. Easy to access and understand information.

www.lonelyplanet.com has good general health advice when considering a long trip.

www.dfa.ie Department of Foreign Affairs

www.tmb.ie is Ireland’s best known travel health clinic site. Useful articles and travel advice.

www.cdc.gov/travel/ is has detailed information form the American Government on travel health issues.

• WHO
• Useful Travel Information
• US Dept Health Travel