Travel Advice and Vaccinations
Please allow as much time as possible (at least 6 weeks or more) before you travel, this will ensure that you are more likely to be fully vaccinated before departing to your destination.
Please note only the undernoted vaccines are available on NHS Prescriptions:-
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Polio
Advice on Malaria will be given.
Immunisation against infectious Hepatitis (Hepatitis A) is available free of charge on the NHS in connection with travel abroad. However Hepatitis B is not routinely available free of charge and therefore you may be charged for this vaccination when requested in connection with travel abroad
All other vaccines are available at the Brownlee Centre, which is based at:
Gartnavel Hospital
1053 Great Western Road
Glasgow, G12 0YN
Phone: 0141 211 1089
Fax: 0141 211 1097
If you wish Travel Advice please phone and arrange a telephone consultation with the Practice Nurse. If immunisations are required she will arrange an appointment for you to come in.
If you are unable to wait for our next available travel advice appointment, as advised by the reception staff, then you can attend any Private Travel Clinic (you can obtain these numbers in the Yellow Pages see link below, type in “travel clinic” then “Glasgow”, to display a list of clinics) charges will apply at these clinics.
If you wish further information before you travel please visit the following web site for further detailed information.
Go to Health care abroad for information concerning medical cover in other countries.
Excess quantities of regular repeat prescriptions
A Scottish home and Health Department circular from 1971 clarifies the position on prescribing for patients going abroad for extended periods. It states:-
“If a patient intends to go away for a longer period(than two to three week’s holiday) he/she may not be regarded as a resident of this country and would not be entitled to the benefits of the National Health Service… It may not be in the patient’s best interest for him/her to continue to self-medication over such longer periods…. If a patient is going abroad for a long period, he/she should be prescribed sufficient drugs to meet his/her requirements only until such time as he can place himself/herself in the care of a doctor at his/her destination.”
Where ongoing medical attention is not necessary, the patient may be given a private prescription.