Where are you going?
Travel health by destination
What you need depends less on the country than on what you will be doing in it. A fortnight in a Bangkok hotel and a month on a farm four hours outside it are the same country and a different consultation.
Popular destinations
Which vaccines tend to come up, the malaria picture and the entry rules, for some of the trips most often taken from Kent.
Check the current advice
Our country pages are a starting point, and these are the sources UK travel clinicians work from - updated as outbreaks and entry rules change. Check every country on your route, including anywhere you only change planes.
TravelHealthPro (opens in a new tab)
National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)
Country-by-country vaccine and malaria recommendations, kept current with outbreak notices. This is the source UK travel clinics use, and it is the one to read before your appointment.
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NHS Scotland
The same ground covered in plainer language, with a clear separation of what most travellers need from what only some do. Useful if TravelHealthPro feels written for clinicians.
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FCDO travel advice (opens in a new tab)
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Entry requirements, safety and local laws, plus the health section insurers refer to. Check it for visa and certificate conditions as well as security.
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Or start from the risk, not the map
Country lists are long and most of a long list will not apply to you. It is easier to work from how you would be exposed - and that is how our guides are arranged.
Food and water
Swallowed rather than caught: anything that reaches you through a kitchen, a water supply or an unwashed hand.
3 vaccines
Mosquitoes and insect bites
Carried by mosquitoes and ticks. Which ones matter depends on the region, the season and the time of day they feed.
3 vaccines
Animals and bites
Dogs, monkeys and bats. The question is less whether you will meet one than how far you would be from treatment.
1 vaccine
Person to person
Droplets, blood and body fluids. Crowding, long stays and medical care abroad are what raise these.
5 vaccines
Routine cover, brought up to date
The childhood vaccinations that lapse. Checked first in every consultation, because this is the gap most travellers actually have.
1 vaccine
Health and wellbeing
On our price list, given at the same clinics, and nothing to do with a trip. Each says plainly whether the NHS would give it to you free, because that is usually the better answer.
4 vaccines
6 groups covering every travel vaccine we give.
Book a travel consultation
Our clinics are in Ashford, Chatham and Sevenoaks. Bring your itinerary and we will go through it country by country.
- EurekaAshfordCall our Eureka clinic on 01233 638961
- ReptonAshfordCall our Repton clinic on 01233 227760
- SevenoaksSevenoaksCall our Sevenoaks clinic on 01732 456570
- Shirley AvenueChathamCall our Shirley Avenue clinic on 01634 303110