Destination-specific travel advice and antimalarial prescriptions, with vaccination requirements set out clearly.
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Travel health advice is only useful if it is specific to where you are actually going, when, and what you will be doing there. A city break and three weeks of rural trekking carry entirely different risks.
The consultation covers your itinerary against current guidance, and any antimalarial prescription you need.
We can prescribe antimalarial medication and travellers' diarrhoea standby treatment, and advise on which vaccinations you need and where to get them.
Fever after travel to a malarial area is a medical emergency. Malaria can develop up to a year afterwards and is rapidly fatal if untreated. Seek urgent care and tell them where you have been — do not wait for a routine appointment.
Some vaccination courses take weeks to complete. Some antimalarials must start before departure. Booking the week before travel limits what is possible.
Exact destinations including rural areas, dates, accommodation type and activities. Risk differs enormously between a city hotel and three weeks trekking, even in the same country.
Options differ in dosing schedule, side effects and suitability. Some are unsuitable with a history of depression or epilepsy. The right one depends on your destination and your history, not on price.
No antimalarial is fully effective. DEET repellent, covered skin at dusk and dawn, and treated nets matter as much as the tablets.
Antimalarials differ considerably: some require daily dosing, some cause sun sensitivity, and some are unsuitable with a history of depression or epilepsy. The right choice depends on your destination and your history.
We are not a designated yellow fever vaccination centre and cannot issue yellow fever certificates. Vaccinations require an in-person appointment, which we will direct you to.
No antimalarial is completely effective — bite avoidance remains essential, and fever after travel to a malarial area is a medical emergency.
No antimalarial is fully effective, so bite avoidance is not the optional half.
Alongside: bottled or treated water, care with ice and salads, and hand hygiene.
Use it only if you actually meet the criteria you were given — usually several loose stools with fever or blood — and not for ordinary loose stools, which settle with fluids and oral rehydration.
Seek local medical care if there is high fever, blood, severe pain, or you cannot keep fluids down, and particularly for a child.
Fever after travel to a malarial area is a medical emergency.
Also worth reporting after travel: persistent diarrhoea beyond two weeks, jaundice, an unexplained rash, or any animal bite or scratch — which needs assessing for rabies urgently, wherever it happened.
Mention any hospital treatment or antibiotics received overseas, particularly in South Asia, the Middle East and parts of the Mediterranean — resistant organisms are acquired this way, and it changes how a subsequent infection is treated.
TravelHealthPro (NaTHNaC) and fitfortravel (NHS Scotland) publish country-by-country guidance, free and updated continuously. They are what clinicians use. Read your destination's page before booking anything — you may find you need very little.
They differ in schedule, side effects and cost, and the right one depends on destination and history rather than price:
Some are available from pharmacies without prescription, which is worth asking about — though the choice still needs to match your destination and history.
If you need several vaccinations, one appointment there is more practical than assembling them piecemeal. Ask what is free on the NHS first — and be aware that some clinics sell vaccines the guidance does not recommend for your itinerary.
Several travel vaccinations are free on the NHS at your own GP practice: hepatitis A, typhoid, cholera, and tetanus/diphtheria/polio.
People routinely pay travel clinics for these without asking. Ring your practice before booking anything.
TravelHealthPro and fitfortravel are free, authoritative and updated continuously. Reading your destination's page may tell you that you need very little.
Doxycycline is inexpensive. Atovaquone/proguanil is markedly more, particularly for a long trip.
But the right choice depends on destination, tolerance and your history rather than price — a cheap tablet that is wrong for your itinerary, or that you stop because of side effects, protects nobody.
Some are available from pharmacies without prescription, which is worth asking about. Compare prices: for a month's supply the difference between pharmacies is not trivial.
If you need very little for your itinerary, we will say so. A fortnight in a European city needs a GHIC and sensible insurance, not a consultation.
We sell nothing — no vaccines, no kits, no repellent, no supplements.
Six to eight weeks. Some vaccination courses take weeks to complete, and some antimalarials must start before departure.
Booking the week before travel limits what is possible — sometimes to nothing useful.
No — vaccination requires an in-person appointment. We tell you exactly what you need for your itinerary and where to get it.
Ask your own NHS practice first: hepatitis A, typhoid, cholera and tetanus/diphtheria/polio are free there, and people pay travel clinics for them unnecessarily every week.
No. Only a designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre can vaccinate and issue the international certificate. We can tell you whether your itinerary requires one.
The one that matches your destination, your history and what you will realistically take every day.
Doxycycline — cheap, daily, sun sensitivity, four weeks after return, not in pregnancy. Atovaquone/proguanil — well tolerated, shorter course after return, more expensive. Mefloquine — weekly, and unsuitable with a history of depression, anxiety, psychosis or epilepsy.
Resistance patterns vary by country, which is why the itinerary matters more than the price.
Risk depends on the region, the season and what you will be doing rather than on how long you are there. A week in a rural high-transmission area carries more risk than a fortnight in a city.
A single infective bite is enough, and falciparum malaria can be fatal within days.
This is the most important thing on the page. Fever after travel to a malarial area is a medical emergency.
Seek urgent care the same day and tell them where you have been. Malaria can develop up to a year afterwards, it is frequently mistaken for flu, and having taken your tablets correctly does not exclude it.
No — no antimalarial is fully effective, and bite avoidance is not the optional half.
DEET 50% applied after sunscreen, covered skin at dusk and dawn, and a treated bed net. This also protects against dengue, Zika and chikungunya, for which there is no preventive tablet at all.
Some, and it needs individual advice — doxycycline is not among them.
Pregnant women are at higher risk of severe malaria, and travel to a high-risk area during pregnancy is worth reconsidering rather than simply medicating. Zika transmission areas warrant particular caution.
Not routinely. Most cases settle with fluids and oral rehydration salts, and unnecessary antibiotics drive resistance.
Standby treatment is appropriate for remote travel or high-risk itineraries, with clear criteria for when to use it — several loose stools with fever or blood, not ordinary loose stools.
Take enough for the whole trip plus at least a week, in original labelled boxes, in hand luggage. Check every country you enter or transit, since several restrict medicines that are entirely ordinary here.
We can provide a medication letter, though it is not a permit.
Check that it covers your activities and that every condition is declared — undeclared conditions are the standard reason claims are refused.
A GHIC covers state healthcare in Europe and is free, but it does not cover repatriation and is not a substitute for insurance.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
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August 23, 2026
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No. We are not here to replace GPs, only to support them. Your NHS practice remains responsible for your ongoing care, and with your consent we write to them after the consultation. We are useful when you need to be seen sooner, or want more time than a standard appointment allows.
Twenty unhurried minutes and a comprehensive assessment. A written treatment plan is included, along with any prescription, sick note or referral letter arising from the consultation, at no extra charge.
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It means the diagnosis can usually be made from your history and photographs, and that treatment can be arranged safely without examining you. Where a condition is not marked treatable online, it is because examination is the diagnosis — listening to a chest, feeling an abdomen, examining an ear or a joint — or because a procedure or device is needed.
Yes, where there is a genuine bacterial infection — cellulitis, impetigo, bacterial urine infections, confirmed strep throat. We will also frequently tell you that you do not need one. Most sore throats, coughs, colds and earaches are viral, and an antibiotic gives you the side effects with none of the benefit.
If your problem turns out to be genuinely outside what we can do remotely, the doctor will tell you straight away, point you to the right service, and refund your fee in full. We would rather do that than fill twenty minutes to justify the charge.
Call 999 or go to A&E — do not book an online appointment and do not wait for a reply to an email. For urgent problems that are not emergencies, NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, online or by phone, and can direct you to the right service.
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