Abbey Medical Group offer a travel health service. Travel health education and vaccination will be given as required by your destination, travel itinerary and general health. You may be asked to complete at travel risk assessment form.
We request that you contact the surgery by phone to speak to a nurse. They will phone you back and discuss when you need to attend.
Private Patients – People who are not registered with this practice can attend for yellow fever and other vaccinations. Please inform the receptionist when you make your appointment. Please arrive ten minutes before your appointment to complete the necessary paperwork. Thank you.
For more information on travel health for your destination go to NHS travel site, Nathnac.
When you attend for your travel appointment the nurse will advise you on the vaccinations you need. Some vaccines will have a charge.
We would recommend you attend 8 weeks before you travel or contact us as soon as you can to allow time for the necessary appointments.
• Do not rely on your travel agent for travel health advice. We recommend you phone for advise about your travel as often your travel company does not given the full recommendations that we consider you need.
• Malaria. The malaria carrying mosquito is altering it’s location and developing resistance to modern treatments all the time. Please check on your requirements even if you are going to the same country as last year as the situation may have changed.
• Traveller’s Diarrhoea. Unfortunately this is the most common illness associated with foreign travel and there is no vaccination against it. Good hygiene is essential. Click here for more information.
Travel vaccinations
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have the recommended vaccines.
For more information on vaccines click here.
Please take into account that ideally only two vaccinations are recommended at any one time.
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Vaccinations
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Course
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Lasts
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Hepatitis A
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1 dose
Booster dose in
6 to 12 months
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After booster dose
20 years
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Typhoid
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1 dose
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3 years
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Tetanus/diphtheria/polio
Combined vaccine
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1 dose
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10 years
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Hepatitis B
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Normal course-
3 doses
At start, 1 month
and 6 months
Accelerated
course- 4 doses
Start, 1 and
2 months booster
at 1 year
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Booster needed after
5 years, then last for
life
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Rabies
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3 doses, start, 7
and 28 days
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3 years
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Yellow Fever
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1 dose
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10 years, valid for 10
days after date given
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Meningitis ACWY
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1 dose
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3 years
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Charges for vaccinations
Travel health requirements are not part of the NHS therefore a charge will be made.
The following travel vaccines are free to patients registered at this surgery:
- Cholera
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Tetanus, Diphtheria and Polio
If you are not a patient of the practice then please speak to reception about a private price
Any payment is due prior to vaccinations being given – cash, debit/credit card or cheque only.
Other vaccinations
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Vaccine
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Number of Doses
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Total Cost
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Encephalitis-
Tick bourne
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3 dose course
Booster
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£240.00
£80.00
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Japanese
Encephalitis
Hepatitis B
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Not given at this practice
4 dose course
1 booster course
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£80.00
£20.00
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Hepatitis B (junior)
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3 dose course
4 dose course
1 booster course
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£55.00
£75.00
£15.00
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Influenza for
travel
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1
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£20.00
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Meningitis
ACWY
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1
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£40.00
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Rabies
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3
1 Booster course
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£150.00
£50
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Yellow Fever
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1
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£50.00
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Malaria Tablets
(4 types available depending on destination)
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If you need malaria tablets which are only available on prescription we charge £15.00 for a private prescription
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You can buy them from the chemist. Prices vary. Instructions for use will be given with tablets
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Blood tests are £30.00 plus the cost of the test charged by the laboratory.