Travel Vaccinations

Before travelling, you must allow ample time to determine which travel vaccinations you need. You can find out what you need from this website: Travelhealthpro or by booking an appointment at a local travel clinic.

The following vaccines are available free on the NHS for overseas travel and can be administered here at Poole Town Surgery:

• Hepatitis A
• Typhoid
• Polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)

If you require any of the above vaccinations to be administered at the surgery, please please fill in this form.

The form will need to be sent in at least 6 weeks before travel. The vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine

Vaccination available from the NHS

for Patients Travelling Outside the UK

Under NHS legislation, the NHS ceases to have responsibility for people when they leave the UK. GP’s are not required to provide prescriptions for the treatment of a condition that may arise while the patient is abroad. 

For example;

• Sun cream/lotions
• Pain relief
• Antidiarrhoeals Travel sickness medicines

Drugs for malaria prophylaxis are not prescribed on the NHS

• Patients should be advised to purchase where possible over the counter medications
• For prescription only medicines (eg. Doxycycline, Lariam®, Malarone® and Maloprim®), Poole Town Surgery do not write private prescription. This can be obtained from a travel clinic.

All other travel vaccinations are not available on the NHS 

• Meningitis ACWY
• Tick Borne Encephalitis
• Japanese Encephalitis
•  Rabies
•  Yellow Fever Vaccine

Healthy Travel Leaflet

You may find the following link helpful when making your travel arrangements. This is from NHS Scotland.

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.

Private Travel Clinics

You can attend any Private Travel Clinic—charges will apply at these clinics.

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.

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