Travel Health Information

Going travelling?

Whether travelling for business, adventure or relaxation, a good trip always involves careful planning.

Travel

It is important to protect your health while abroad, especially if spending time in areas that pose risk of certain diseases.  We would recommend that you start planning your travel health at least 3 months in advance.  It is possible that you may need travel vaccinations or malaria tablets.

Our practice nurses are fully trained to provide advice regarding immunisations for travelling abroad, malaria prophylaxis and general advice about keeping yourself healthy whilst travelling.

For information, advice and to be seen (if appropriate), please complete a Travel Risk Assessment Form below. Paper copies are also available at Reception.

After we have received your form, a Practice Nurse will be in touch with you, please allow at least 5 working days.

If you are travelling to an area where vaccinations are recommended, we ideally need to see you 6-8 weeks before you travel to allow for a course of vaccinations to be completed and for the vaccinations to take effect.

We can only offer travel advice and appointments to Pembroke Medical Group patients.

Some travel vaccinations are free on the NHS while others are chargeable.

You will be advised as part of your assessment which vaccines you need.

We can offer the free NHS vaccinations of Typhoid, Hepatitis A, DTP (Diphtheria/Tetanus/Polio) and the MMR.

If there are any non NHS funded (chargeable) vaccinations recommended, these can be arranged at Exeter travel clinic (01392 430590) or Boots, Wren Park, Torquay (01803 615874)

We do recommend that you visit the fit for travel website and you can download our general travel advice leaflet here

If you need to take medication whilst you are away, make sure you have ordered this from us in good time before you go. Please note that we can only give a maximum three month supply.

Health Insurance

This is often the very last items on a traveller’s checklist, yet it is perhaps the most important of all. Cover should be arranged at the time you book your holiday.

European Health Insurance Card

The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) allows you to access state-provided healthcare in all European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland at a reduced cost or sometimes free of charge. Applying for the card is free. However, other, unofficial, websites may charge you if you apply through them.

Click the link below for more details

European Health Insurance Card

Travel Risk Assessment Form

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Name  Required
Date of birth  Required
Gender  Optional
Date of departure  Optional
About your trip  Optional
Country to be visited
Exact location or region
City or Rural
Length of stay
 
Have you taken out travel insurance for this trip?  Optional
Do you plan to travel abroad again in the future?  Optional
Type of travel and purpose of trip - please tick all that apply.  Optional
Are you fit and well today?  Optional

Any allergies including food, latex, medication?  Optional

Have you, or anyone in your family, had a severe reaction to a vaccine or malaria medication before?  Optional

Tendency to faint with injections?  Optional

Any surgical operations in the past, including e.g. open heart surgery, spleen or thymus gland removal?  Optional

Recent chemotherapy/radiotherapy/organ transplant  Optional

Anaemia?  Optional

Bleeding/clotting disorders (including history of DVT)  Optional

Heart disease (e.g. angina, high blood pressure)  Optional

Diabetes?  Optional

Additional needs and/or disability?  Optional

Epilepsy/seizures (or in a first degree relative)?  Optional

Gastrointestinal (stomach) complaints?  Optional

Liver or Kidney problems?  Optional

HIV/AIDS?  Optional

Immune system condition e.g. blood cancer?  Optional

Mental health issues (including anxiety, depression)?  Optional

Neurological (nervous system) illness?  Optional

Respiratory (lung) disease?  Optional

Rheumatology (joint) conditions?  Optional

Spleen problems?  Optional

Are you or your partner pregnant or planning a pregnancy?  Optional
Are you breast feeding (if applicable)?  Optional
Have you or anyone in your family undergone FGM / been cut / circumcised?  Optional
Please supply information on any vaccines or Malaria tablets taken in the past  Optional

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