If you require travel advice or travel vaccinations please see website: fitfortravel.nhs.uk or email: [email protected] to obtain advice with regards to your travel arrangements.
If you are travelling at short notice, it is best to attend one of the Specialist Travel Clinics listed below who can advise on accelerated courses.
Charges:
There may be costs relating to travel vaccinations.
We do not offer travel vaccinations at the surgery. Please find details below of private clinics you can contact.
Vaccines
Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge.T his is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.
Please note only the undernoted vaccines are available on NHS Prescriptions:-
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Polio
Travel Form
You can also complete the online Travel form see website: www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk
Healthy Travel Leaflet
You may find the following leaflet helpful when making your travel arrangements.
Advice on Malaria will be given.
Please download and print our useful guide below about Mosquito advice.
Hepatitis immunisation
Immunisation against infectious Hepatitis (Hepatitis A) is available free of charge on the NHS in connection with travel abroad. However Hepatitis B is not routinely available free of charge and therefore you may be charged for this vaccination when requested in connection with travel abroad.
Specialist Travel Clinics
We do not offer travel vaccinations at the surgery, You can attend a MASTA clinic or any other Private Travel Clinic. Please be aware that charges will apply.
Nearby Travel Clinics and Useful Information
- Ayrshire Central Hospital
Tuesdays 11-12:30pm By Appointment ONLY. Tel: 01563 577970 (Dr Allan’s Secretary)
- Rowlands Pharmacy Travel Health Clinic, Ayr
29 Mount Oliphant Cres, Forehill, Ayr, KA7 3EN Tel: 01292 261013
Website: Rowlands Pharmacy Travel Health Clinic
- The Travel Clinic
Room 5, West Wing, St James Business Centre, Paisley PA3 3AT. Tel: 0141 8897656
Website: The Travel Clinic Glasgow
- CityDoc
Glasgow. Tel 0203 5530758
Website: City Doc Travel Clinic
- Online Doctor
Tel: 03300370563
Masta
Masta offer travel health consultations, vaccinations (including yellow fever at MASTA nurse lead clinics and selected community pharmacies), antimalarials and travel related retail items. MASTA (Medical Advisory Service for Travellers Abroad), was established over 30 years ago and we now operate one of the largest network of private travel clinics in the UK.
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.