Every vaccine we give

Travel vaccinations in Kent

Travel vaccines and jabs at our five pharmacy clinics in Ashford, Chatham and Sevenoaks, with every price published before you book.

Food and water

Swallowed rather than caught: anything that reaches you through a kitchen, a water supply or an unwashed hand.

Typhoid
One injection, around three years of cover, and it is the vaccine most often discussed for South Asia, parts of Africa and South America.
Full course £50
Hepatitis A
The single most commonly given travel vaccine in the UK: one dose covers your trip, and a second within a year takes you to around twenty-five years.
Full course £120
Cholera
Dukoral
A drink rather than an injection, and one of the few travel vaccines we will often advise you do not need - most holidays carry a very low cholera risk.
Full course £100

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.

Japanese encephalitis
A rare infection with severe consequences, carried by rice-field mosquitoes - which is why the question is not which country but what you will be doing there.
Full course £230
Dengue
Qdenga
A newer travel vaccine on a three-month schedule, most clearly worthwhile for people who have had dengue before - and a vaccine we will talk you out of as readily as into.
Full course £200
Yellow fever
The only vaccine a border can legally demand to see - one dose, a certificate valid for life, and it must be in your hand ten days before you arrive.
Full course £80

Animals and bites

Dogs, monkeys and bats. The question is less whether you will meet one than how far you would be from treatment.

Rabies
Rabipur or Verorab
Three doses over three weeks that do not make you immune - they buy you time, which is the whole point where post-bite treatment is days away rather than hours.
Full course £240

Person to person

Droplets, blood and body fluids. Crowding, long stays and medical care abroad are what raise these.

Hepatitis B
A three-dose course that can be compressed into three weeks when you are travelling sooner than that, and the vaccine that matters most for long stays and medical work.
Full course £180
Hepatitis A and B combined
Both hepatitis vaccines in one injection: three visits instead of five, and the obvious choice if your trip calls for each of them.
Full course £195
Meningitis ACWY
One injection, with the certificate Saudi Arabia requires for Hajj and Umrah - and the vaccine for the African meningitis belt in the dry season.
Full course £80
Measles, mumps and rubella
MMRVaxPRO
Free on the NHS at any age, available here when you want it this week - and with measles back across Europe, the catch-up dose most missed travellers need.
Full course £80
Chickenpox (varicella)
Varivax
Not on the routine UK schedule, which is why plenty of adults have never had chickenpox - and it hits considerably harder after childhood.
Full course £130

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.

Diphtheria, tetanus and polio
Revaxis
Three diseases, one injection, ten years - and the booster most British travellers turn out to be overdue for without knowing it.
Full course £50

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.

Shingles
Shingrix
Not a travel vaccine - it is here because it is on our price list. Two doses of Shingrix, and the NHS gives it free to a defined age group that moves each year.
Full course £430
HPV (human papillomavirus)
Gardasil 9
Not a travel vaccine. It prevents the infection behind nearly all cervical cancer, and the NHS gives it free to anyone who missed the school programme, up to their 25th birthday.
Full course £540
Meningitis B
Bexsero
The group the travel vaccine does not cover. MenACWY protects against four; this is the fifth, and the one behind most meningococcal disease in the UK.
Full course £360
RSV (respiratory syncytial virus)
Abrysvo
A single dose, and a virus most people have never heard of despite nearly everyone catching it as a child. The NHS covers a defined older age group and pregnancy free.
Full course £250

The parts that are not a vaccine

Most of what a travel consultation covers has no injection attached to it. Malaria has no traveller's vaccine at all, and the two things most likely to spoil a trip - an upset stomach and altitude - are managed with tablets and advice.

Malaria prevention and antimalarial tablets
There is no malaria vaccine for travellers, so prevention is tablets plus bite avoidance - and which tablets depends on where you are going, what else you take and how long you are away.
Read the guide
Hajj and Umrah travel health
Saudi Arabia requires a MenACWY certificate for pilgrims, given at least ten days before arrival - we vaccinate and issue the certificate in the same appointment.
Read the guide
Yellow fever certificates and exemptions
The yellow fever certificate is the only vaccination document a border can legally require - here is what makes one valid, and what to do if you have lost yours or cannot be vaccinated.
Read the guide
Traveller's diarrhoea
The most likely thing to go wrong on your trip, by a wide margin - and the one you can pack for in advance rather than hunt for a pharmacy abroad.
Read the guide
Altitude sickness
Above about 2,500 metres altitude sickness becomes a real prospect regardless of how fit you are - and fitness is the single most common misconception about it.
Read the guide
Jet lag
Three or more time zones is where the body clock starts losing the argument, and eastbound flights are consistently harder than westbound ones.
Read the guide

Book a travel consultation

Call whichever clinic suits you. Allow four to six weeks before you travel where you can - and call anyway if you are flying sooner.

What happens at the appointment