Travel Vaccinations

**WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY HOLDING TRAVEL CLINICS**

Primrose Lane Medical Centre does not provide specialist or private services for travel. Travel health services under the NHS are very limited.

You should ask your pharmacist for travel health advice or try

www.traveldoctor.co.uk

www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk

www.travelhealth.co.uk

www.patient.co.uk

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

Local Travel Clinics include:-

Some Malaria tablets are available over the counter some require a private prescription

locally the pharmacies that offers an Anti-Malaria service are Dears Pharmacy Dunfermline and  ASDA Halbeath (tel 01383 843617)

If you want to attend the surgery for vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.

Vaccinations provided if required for travel by the surgery via NHS prescription

typhoid and paratyphoid

cholera

poliomyelitis

hepatitis A

diphtheria and tetanus

Vaccinations NOT provided by the surgery

hepatitis B

meningitis

rabies

tuberculosis

yellow fever

There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

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.

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe the EU has published useful information for travellers on the European website.