Arranging your Travel Appointment
If you’re planning to travel outside the UK, you may need vaccinations to protect against serious diseases that are present in other parts of the world. At St Paul’s, we provide the basic NHS travel vaccination service. However, depending on your destination and the purpose of your trip, you may need additional vaccines and advice from a Private Travel Health provider.
For more details about what is included in the NHS travel vaccination service, please visit:
👉 NHS Travel Vaccination Advice
To find out which vaccines are recommended for your destination, you can use this website:
🌍 TravelHealthPro – Country Information
You can then compare this guidance with your personal vaccination history, which is available through the NHS App. If any NHS-recommended vaccines are identified from this check, please contact us at least 8 weeks before you travel to allow enough time to complete the vaccination schedule. Appointments are limited and we may not have available appointments especially during the winter months. In this instance we recommend you obtain vaccines from a private travel clinic.
Information and protection for malaria can be sought from your pharmacy.
The following vaccines that are available on the NHS (if you are not already vaccinated against these diseases)
- Polio (given as a combined vaccine with diphtheria and tetanus)
- Typhoid
- Hepatitis A
- Cholera
MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) – although not a travel vaccine, protection against these diseases is recommended by the NHS.
Please fill in the pre appointment travel questionnaire below, and we’ll get in touch within 4 working days to arrange your appointment.
Excess quantities of regular repeat prescriptions
Under NHS legislation, the NHS ceases to have responsibility for people when they leave the United Kingdom. However, to ensure good patient care the following guidance is offered. People travelling to Europe should be advised to apply for a Global Health Insurance Card.
Medication required for a pre-existing condition should be provided in sufficient quantity to cover the journey and to allow the patient to obtain medical attention abroad. If the patient is returning within the timescale of their usual prescription, then this should be issued (the maximum duration of a prescription is recommended by the Care Trust to be two months, although it is recognised that prescription quantities are sometimes greater than this). Patients are entitled to carry prescribed medicines, even if originally classed as controlled drugs, for example, morphine sulphate tablets.
For longer visits abroad, the patient should be advised to register with a local doctor for continuing medication (this may need to be paid for by the patient).
General practitioners are not responsible for prescriptions of items required for conditions which may arise while travelling, for example travel sickness or diarrhoea. Patients should be advised to purchase these items from community pharmacies prior to travel.