Travel clinic in Fulham

Your appointment starts with your trip: destination, dates, length and type of travel, accommodation, planned activities, and any questions you already have. Your doctor will then review your medical history, current medication, allergies, previous vaccines and, where relevant, pregnancy status or any condition that could affect what is recommended. From there, your GP will explain which travel vaccines or precautions apply to your destination, whether antimalarial medication is appropriate, and what wider health advice makes sense for the journey.

That may include insect-bite prevention, food and water precautions, altitude considerations, deep vein thrombosis risk on long flights, travelling with medication, or planning for children on the same itinerary.

You leave with a clear plan: which vaccines you need and when, any prescription arranged, and written advice where useful. If a follow-up dose is needed, we book it before you go home.

Most of what a trip needs can be arranged through the same consultation.

• Travel vaccines: destination-specific vaccines such as typhoid, hepatitis A and B, rabies and others, planned around your itinerary and vaccine history.
• Antimalarials: where medication is appropriate for your destination and medical background, your GP can issue a private prescription.

• Fit-to-fly letters: where clinically appropriate after assessment, including letters for airlines and travel during pregnancy.
• Travelling with medication: letters confirming prescribed medication for customs and airline purposes, and advice on carrying it safely.
• Family planning for one itinerary: adults and children seen for the same trip, with advice adjusted for each traveller – see our children’s health page for wider care.

If you also want routine, non-travel vaccinations such as flu or shingles, those are covered on our vaccinations page.

Anyone travelling abroad can book, but the travel clinic is especially useful when the trip, or the traveller, needs a little more thought.

• Families travelling together on one itinerary, including babies and young children.
• Multi-stop or long trips, rural travel, trekking and altitude.
• Travellers with long-term conditions, regular medication or allergies.
• Pregnant travellers who want destination and vaccine advice specific to pregnancy.

• Anyone whose vaccine history is uncertain and wants it reviewed properly.

Because the travel clinic sits within a GP practice, your wider health can be part of the conversation. Your GP can review your itinerary, vaccine history, medical background and any medication or pregnancy considerations, then help you plan the right next steps for the trip.