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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
Payment and availability of travel vaccinations
- The following vaccines are available on the NHS (whatever the purpose of travel) for travel overseas:
- Typhoid fever
- Hepatitis A
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies is available on the NHS only for travellers working overseas whose occupation puts them at high risk of exposure to the virus.
- The following vaccines are not routinely available on the NHS for overseas travel:
- Meningococcal meningitis
- Yellow fever
- Japanese encephalitis
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Cholera
- Hepatitis B
- Payment for the prescribing of vaccines for travel purposes is at the discretion of the practice. Sometimes an administration charge may be made; therefore, the exact cost of immunization may vary between practices as well as between vaccination centres.
- Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine can be obtained on a named-patient basis only.
- Yellow fever vaccines are available only in designated centres.
[Goodyer, 2000]
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