Travel and vaccination clinic

We are trained to give expert advice on travel health, vaccinations and malaria prevention for your particular trip.

Whether you are travelling for business, leisure or adventure, or visiting friends and family abroad, protecting your health beforehand matters. You get a personalised travel risk assessment, advice, and access to vaccinations and antimalarials where they are appropriate.

Before you book

• Everyone travelling needs a consultation first — £20 each. Vaccines are charged separately on top, so the least anyone pays is around £59. It applies even if you have been to the same country before, or had advice or jabs somewhere else.
• Book early. Some courses take months to complete — rabies and hepatitis B run over six months — so the sooner you come, the more we can protect you against.
• Booking gives consent for us to check your vaccination history on your Summary Care Record, so we can tell what you already have.

Why is a consultation required?

Every traveller has a travel consultation before receiving travel health advice or vaccinations. That is true even if you have travelled to the same destination before, had travel advice elsewhere, or been vaccinated by another provider.

Our pharmacist has to complete an independent travel risk assessment for each traveller. It is specific to this service and is not transferable to or from another healthcare professional or organisation.

How the service works

1. Book your appointment online, or call us on 01344 420293.
2. On the day, your consultation happens either in person or by telephone.
3. If the consultation was in person and we have the vaccine in stock, you can usually be vaccinated in the same appointment. If it was by telephone, we book a separate appointment for any vaccinations you decide to have.

Your vaccination history and the Summary Care Record

To make sure our recommendations are accurate, we may review your vaccination history before your consultation. By booking, you consent to the pharmacist accessing your Summary Care Record, where available, for that purpose.

If you would rather we did not, contact the pharmacy before your appointment and we will discuss other ways of confirming your history.

• An accurate history matters — it determines which vaccinations are recommended or required.
• Delays in obtaining it may mean your consultation is postponed or rescheduled.
• Where it cannot be verified, recommendations are based on the information available at the time.
• It is your responsibility to give accurate information about previous vaccinations. We cannot accept responsibility for recommendations affected by incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable history.

Telling your GP

This is a private vaccination service, and we do not routinely notify your GP that you have been vaccinated.

After each vaccination we give you documentation confirming the vaccine given, the batch number, the date, and the other relevant details. We strongly recommend passing this to your GP so your medical record can be updated.

Cancellation and non-attendance

If you cannot attend your appointment, please let us know as soon as you can, and at least 24 hours beforehand, so the time can go to someone else.