If possible, you should be seen by our GP practice or a private travel clinic at least 8 weeks before you’re due to travel. Some vaccines need to be given well in advance to allow your body to develop immunity.

The NHS website covers what vaccines are available free on the NHS, and what you will need to pay for

• Travel vaccinations – NHS

Included below are

• Details about our practice travel clinic
• A link to information on commonly asked question on travel and holiday health

First book a telephone appointment
If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel, you need to make a telephone appointment first with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within those countries you are visiting to determine what vaccinations you will require.

Initial telephone appointment at least 6 weeks before travel
It is important to make this initial telephone appointment as early as possible – at least 6 weeks before you travel – as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse at the surgery to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as many of them are not a stock vaccine. The Practice Nurse will book the second appointment. Please note we are no longer a yellow fever vaccination centre.