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We offer a full travel vaccination service
including Yellow Fever. We are a National Yellow Fever Vaccination
Centre, one of the few in the area.
Ideally you should contact us about 8-12 weeks
before your departure in case you need a course of injections.
Both of our practice nurses advise and administer the necessary
immunisations: make an appointment via reception on 01252
793183. It would be helpful if you told the receptionist
where and when you are travelling.
Additional information also available from
www.fco.gov.uk
and www.travax.nhs.uk
Many vital travel vaccinations are free: for
example Typhoid, Hepatitis A and also Tetanus and Polio,
if administered by us.
However other, equally vital, immunisations
including Yellow Fever, Meningitis and Rabies are not available
at NHS expense and must be paid for privately. This is a
Department of Health decision.
Likewise anti-malarial tablets are not available
on NHS prescription and must be paid for. Malaria still
claims many lives every year so please do not chance it!
Follow the nurses’ advice as to what sort is best
for you and for your destination. Remember to take them
as instructed, including during the recommended period after
return. Most need to be taken for a month after returning,
except for Malarone which is only a week.
It is important not to get bitten: use insect
repellent and insect nets and cover up arms, feet and legs
at dusk when the mosquitoes are most active.
We accept payment by cash or cheque only.
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PNEUMOCOCCAL
VACCINATION
Everybody aged 65 and over should be immunised
to help protect against pneumococcal infection which can
cause diseases such as pneumonia, septicaemia (blood poisoning)
and meningitis. It is also called the “pneumonia jab”
Everybody is at risk of getting pneumococcal
disease, but the older you are the greater the risk. If
you are 65years or over, please call us to arrange a jab
if you have not had one. It is free.
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