Travel Health

At Hamble Valley Health, we offer travel vaccinations in line with our NHS contractual obligations. This includes certain vaccines that are covered under the core General Medical Services (GMS) contract.

However, we must carefully manage our capacity to ensure we can continue delivering safe and effective care across all services. Travel vaccinations require dedicated time for assessment, planning, and administration, and must be balanced alongside our routine clinical workload.

For this reason, we offer a limited number of travel vaccination appointments each month.

To arrange travel vaccinations, a nurse will first need to assess which vaccinations you require. Please submit an Anima or contact reception, we will send you the relevant form to complete. Once a nurse has reviewed your submission, you will be notified of which vaccines you require and asked to arrange an appropriate appointment. If you’re planning to travel, we recommend contacting us as early as possible—ideally at least 6–8 weeks before your departure. This gives us the best chance of accommodating your needs and ensuring you receive any necessary vaccinations in time. If we do not have any capacity to offer you an appointment, we will ask you to attend a private travel clinic.

  • For any vaccinations that are not available on the NHS, you will need to visit the travel clinic through www.travelhealthclinic.co.uk to receive them, and they will be chargeable.

Further Information

The following websites will give you additional travel advice.

Select the region you are travelling to find out more
MASTA Travel Health | For all your vaccination advice (masta-travel-health.com)
Foreign travel advice – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
By law, the NHS ceases to have responsibility for the medical care of their patients when they leave the UK. Patients should be advised to check specific entitlements prior to travel.

For patients who will be out of the country for less than 3 months, it is reasonable to provide sufficient medicines for an existing condition (i.e. asthma, diabetes).

For patients leaving the country for more than 3 months, they should be advised to register with a local doctor for their continuing medical needs. It is reasonable for GPs to provide sufficient medication to give patients time to do this.

For more information on Global Health Insurance Card please go to https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/healthcare-abroad/apply-for-a-free-uk-global-health-insurance-card-ghic.

GPs are not required by their Terms of Service to provide prescriptions for the treatment of a condition that is not present and may arise while the patient is abroad. Persons who have left the UK, or who are intending to leave the UK, for more than 3 months are not normally allowed to continue to be registered with a practice.

It is recommended that you review your medication requirements prior to travel. It is also important that you review your own medical requirements and to seek appropriate travel insurance cover, as and when required.
 
Prescriptions for patients travelling out of the country
The NHS accepts responsibility for supplying ongoing medication for temporary periods abroad of up to 3 months. If a person is going to be abroad for more than three months then all that the patient is entitled to at NHS expense is a sufficient supply of his/her regular medication in order to get to their destination, where they should then find an alternative supply of that medication.

For more information on taking medicine abroad, please go to https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/medicines/can-i-take-my-medicine-abroad.