We offer a full travel vaccination service
including Yellow Fever. We are a National Yellow Fever Vaccination
Centre.
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.
Immunisations such as Yellow Fever, Meningitis
and Rabies although vital, 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.
Please note that you will have to
pay for your vaccinations before they are administered.
We can accept cheques and cash, but not credit or debit
cards.
The following travel vaccinations are provided
for free:
typhoid,
hepatitis A,
tetanus, diphtheria, and
polio (which are combined in one vaccine)
There will be a charge for the following travel
vaccinations (charges are inc. VAT):
Chargeable vaccines
Price
(inc VAT)
Hepatitis B
34.36(per dose - course
of 3)
Rabies
42.09 (per dose - course
of 3)
Yellow Fever
46.00
Men ACWY
39.56
Other travel vaccinations maybe available
on request.
Other Chargeable
Medications
Amount
Price
(inc VAT)
Paludrine
98 tabs
22.60
Travel Pack Paludrine/Avloclor
1 pack = 98 Paludrine
14 Avloclor
15.16
Larium / Mefloquine
8 tabs
25.06
Malarone
1 tab
2.82
Doxycycline 50
mg
28 capsules
5.77
Doxycycline 100
mg
50 capsules
10.35
Avloclor
20 tabs
2.10
Private prescription if medication
to be purchased elsewhere
8.00 (per prescription)
Please note that travel vaccination and medication costs may
be increased without warning to reflect any increases in the
purchase prices of the vaccination drugs.
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.
