Travel Health

Travel

Do you need vaccinations?

Please arrange an appointment for a travel consultation at least 8 weeks before departure. Vaccines need time to take effect and some may require a course over several weeks. Please be aware that our nurses cannot provide travel advice.

Select the region you are travelling to find out more.

Africa

Central Asia

East Asia

Australasia & Pacific

Caribbean

Central America

Europe & Russia

Middle East

North America

South America & Antarctica

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If you are travelling abroad please complete and submit the travel form in plenty of time (6 weeks) before your journey.

Click here to complete a travel assessment form. 

Please note this service is only avaliable to Kingsnorth Medical Practice patients only.

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Further Travel Information

The following websites will give you additional travel advice

Travel Health for information of vaccinations available on NHS

MASTA for private vaccination clinics

Gov.uk for specific country travel advice

EHIC to apply for your free European Health Insurance Card

 

Private Travel Vaccinations

Some vaccinations and prescriptions are only available privately.  Please see below details of a local travel vaccination clinic in Ashford that can offer last minute and walk in appointments (subject to availability) as well as easy online or telephone appointments.

City Doc Travel Clinic, Formerly Axis BMC Travel Clinic,
G11 & G12 Regus,
The Panorama,
Park St,
Ashford,
Kent,
TN24 8DF

 

Opening Hours:

Monday: 9:00 to 16:00
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 11:30 to 18:30
Friday: Closed
Saturday: 09:00 to 13:30
Sunday: Closed

Contact Number: 0333 006 9976

Email: ashford@citydoc.org.uk

Website: CityDoc Travel Clinic, Ashford

 

Travel Vaccination - Important Update

We are advised by NHSEI, BMA and RCGP that travel vaccinations remain a low clinical priority, set against the context of the wider pandemic NHS recovery, patient access, long term condition management and offering the Covid vaccination programme.

We do, however, recognise that they remain important to our patients, so we protect a proportion of Nurse time to deliver these every week.

We will endeavour to do what we can, but given the wider demands on our time which are clinically urgent, you may be advised that the time window for your vaccinations is inconvenient for your travel plans.

In this scenario if we have no availability to accommodate your needs, we will signpost you to local private travel providers, who may also be able to serve any additional needs for e.g. Japanese encephalitis and tick-borne encephalitis; meningitis vaccines; rabies; tuberculosis (TB) and yellow fever.