If you're planning to travel outside the UK, you may need to be vaccinated against some of the serious diseases found in other parts of the world.

Our practice nurses are available by appointment to offer medical advice regarding travel and vaccinations where appropriate. 

Travel Risk Assessment

We offer a full travel and advice immunisation service. If you are travelling abroad please complete our Travel Risk Assessment Form in plenty of time (We recommend 6-8 weeks) before your journey.

Travel Risk Assessment Form (electronic version)

Travel Risk Assessment (printable version)

Find our more about Travel Vaccinations on nhs.uk.

You can find out which vaccinations are necessary or recommended for the areas you'll be visiting on these websites:

• Travel Health Pro
• NHS fit for Travel

Some countries require proof of vaccination (for example, for polio or yellow fever vaccination), which must be documented on an International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP) before you enter or when you leave a country.

Find out more about the vaccines available for travellers abroad.

Malaria prophylaxis

• Antimalarials are not available at NHS expense for malaria prophylaxis and most medicines for prophylaxis against malaria are available over-the-counter at community pharmacies.

• If a prescription only medicine is required for prophylaxis, this will be prescribed privately and the practice may charge for providing the private prescription.

The following travel vaccines are not available at NHS expense when exclusively given for travel purposes:

• Japanese encephalitis

• Tick-borne encephalitis

• Meningitis ACWY (quadrivalent meningococcal meningitis vaccine; A, C, Y and W135)

• Rabies

• Tuberculosis

• Yellow fever

• Hepatitis B

• Combined hepatitis A and B vaccine is not supported for prescribing on the NHS for travel purposes within Mid and South Essex ICB. Patients requiring both vaccines for travel purposes should be offered hepatitis A vaccine as an NHS service and hepatitis B vaccine separately as a private service.

Prescriptions for medication which is requested solely in anticipation of an ailment whilst outside of the UK, but for which treatment is not required at the time of prescribing should not be prescribed on the NHS. This includes items to treat ailments such as travel sickness, jet lag, or diarrhoea. It also includes postponement of menstruation whilst abroad. These remedies can be either purchased over-the-counter; or if prescription only they should be treated as a private service and the practice may charge for the provision of a private prescription.