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Travel Information
Information and advice for travelling abroad
Travel Vaccinations
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.
Travel Information
Visit the following websites for travel health advice.
Prescribing for Patients Traveling Abroad
Malaria prophylaxis
- Antimalarials are not available at NHS expense for malaria prophylaxis and most medicines for prophylaxis against malaria are available over-the-counter at community pharmacies.
- If a prescription only medicine is required for prophylaxis, this should be prescribed privately and the practice may charge for providing the private prescription.
Non-NHS travel vaccinations
The following travel vaccines are not available at NHS expense when exclusively given for travel purposes:
- Japanese encephalitis
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Meningitis ACWY (quadrivalent meningococcal meningitis vaccine; A, C, Y and W135)
- Rabies
- Tuberculosis
- Yellow fever
- Hepatitis B
- Combined hepatitis A and B vaccine is not supported for prescribing on the NHS for travel purposes within Mid and South Essex ICB. Patients requiring both vaccines for travel purposes should be offered hepatitis A vaccine as an NHS service and hepatitis B vaccine separately as a private service.
More About Our Services
Providing NHS Services
Kingswood Medical Centre
Clay Hill Road
Basildon
Essex
SS16 5AD
Telephone: 01268 663140