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Travel Health
UK sites
Health Advice for Travellers
From the Department of Health.
Fit for Travel
Provides travel health information for people travelling abroad from the UK. Compiled and updated by a team of experts from the Travel Medicine Division at the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
National Travel Health Network and Centre
Funded by the Department of Health to promote clinical standards in travel medicine. Lots of information for the traveller as well as for health professionals.
Using Electricity Safely While Abroad
Information from the Electrical Safety Council - an independent body promoting electrical safety for the protection of consumers. The ESC is keen to educate as many people as possible on this subject and reduce the amount of holiday accidents caused by electricity.
Medical Advisory Service for Travellers Abroad (MASTA)
Maintained by the Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad (MASTA). For anyone who is interested in travel health issues. In particular, the individual traveller who wants to know how to minimise the risks to his or her health. Our aim is to present information in a way that is easily understood by the traveller.
Tick Alert - from MASTA
The Tick Alert Campaign is warning travellers to 16 central and eastern European destinations to avoid tick bites and seek vaccine before travel. Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE) - virus carrying ticks are now endemic from the Baltics to the Mediterranean. TBE is a potentially life-threatening viral disease that can lead to meningitis and result in paralysis and death in serious cases.
Blood Care Foundation
A charitable, not for profit organisation, the Foundation operates a Blood Care Programme, which is designed to provide screened blood, in an emergency, to its members in any part of the world. The Programme is designed to alleviate the shortages of blood, which occur in many parts of the developing world.
British Airways Health Services Online
If you are planning a flight, have a medical problem, want to know about the cabin environment, medical care in the air, etc this site provides useful information including:
- Planning your flight - advice on fitness to fly, flying with specific medical conditions (including a guide for physicians), flying when pregnant, fear of flying and travel immunisations.
- During your flight - flying and your body, medical care in the air, cabin air quality, traveller's thrombosis (DVT), cosmic radiation and the disinfection of aircraft.
- After your flight - staying healthy whilst away, food and drink, taking care in the sun and other travel health issues.
- Traveller's thrombosis (DVT) - the risks, research and advice.
- Jet lag - advice on beating jet lag, rest and alertness, sleep and caffeine use.
- Immunisations - information about the British Airways Travel Clinics.
British Airways Travel Clinics
Offers advice on keeping healthy while abroad.
Risk of Blood Clots during Air Travel
From the British Committee for Standards in Haematology. Provides information regarding the risk of blood clots (DVTs) during air travel.
Health Protection Agency
Lots of information on infectious diseases.
Malaria Hotspots
A website giving information on the malaria hotspots as well as travel tips and guides.
Expatnetwork
A range of information for UK citizens abroad including a health section with health news, insurance information and details of vaccination requirements by country.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice section provides a range of material intended to advise and inform British citizens travelling abroad. This includes advice to help British travellers avoid trouble, especially threats to their personal safety arising from political unrest, lawlessness, violence, natural disasters, epidemics, anti-British demonstrations, and aircraft safety.
Aviation Health Institute
Independent non-profit body promoting the health and well being of aeroplane passengers.
Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland
Provide an advice line service for people in Scotland. Their website also has various booklets, audio tapes, videos and factsheets - including a factsheet on air travel for people affected by heart disease and stroke.
Family Alert
A company providing a service to individuals so that next of kin can be contacted in cases of emergency. There is also a facility to hold medical information to be accessed by professionals if necessary. A range of services are available for children, those living alone, those with medical conditions and others.
Nomad Travel
Provides a full range of travel-related products through Nomad Travellers Stores and Mail Order Catalogue and offers a travel health service through in-house travel pharmacies and Nomad Travel Clinics. Also offers their own range of travel health products and equipment produced by Nomad Medical Ltd, available via this e-commerce enabled web site.
Travel Doctor
An interactive web site providing travel health information for UK travellers and customised medical kits for expeditions, global adventure travellers and holiday makers.
Accessible Travel
Accessible holidays and travel for wheelchair users, slow walkers, mature travellers, their families and friends.
It's So Easy Travel Insurance
A not-for-profit organisation linked to the registered charity Freedom to Travel. They provide advice and information and a travel protection scheme to people who are disabled or have a medical condition.
Travel Health Information
Comprehensive health information for the traveller from the BBC.
Travel Health UK
Practical advice and reviewed links to web pages and resources on travel health and medicine. Recommended for those travelling abroad for business and pleasure.
Travel With Care
Online secure shop selling a range of products for healthy, comfortable and safe travel.
PAS UK and Eire
A nationwide and European private ambulance service.
Aeromed 365 Ltd
Specialist Independant Worldwide Medical Repatriation Service providing assistance in the repatriation of patients worldwide on both dedicated air ambulances and commercial carriers.
Wings Medical Group
Wings Medical Group currently manages over 3,000 cases per year, resulting in over 1,000 escorted commercial medical repatriations and over 200 air ambulance repatriations per year. As an assistance company Wings Medical Group offers 24-hour medical help.
Blue Swan Aviation
Provides air ambulance services including internsive care transfers.
Cover My Travels
Specialist travel insurance for people with pre-existing medical conditions. Very competitive rates. Online quotes and applications.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
Disclaimer: Patient UK has no control of the content of the above links. Inclusion does not imply endorsement by Patient UK.
Related pages in Patient UK
Information leaflets related to this topic (^ top of page)
Immunisation - UK Schedule/ GeneralPatient Support related to this topic (^ top of page)
Air Transport Users Council
Blue Swan Aviation
Department of Health, Health Advice for Travellers
Fit for Travel
JABS - Justice Awareness & Basic Support
MASTA (Travel Health Info and Clinics)
Travel Advice Unit, Consular Directorate, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
TravelHealth.co.ukMedical reference articles in PatientPlus related to this topic (^ top of page)
Diagnosing The Tropical Traveller
Immunisation Schedule (UK)
Travel Advice
Vaccines and Immunological ProductsUK guidelines related to this topic (^ top of page)
Guidelines on ImmunisationOnline videos related to this topic (^ top of page)
Online videos on ImmunisationRecent news items related to this topic (^ top of page)
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Meningitis B trials 'encouraging'
Teenage girls to get anti-cancer vaccine jab
Date set for girls to start receiving cancer jab
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Cervical cancer jab may be offered to all women up to age 25
HPV vaccine uptake
Jab urged after diphtheria death
Call for vaccine opt-out penalty
Warning over malaria dangersLinks to other selected websites related to this topic (^ top of page)
Air Travel
Immunisation
Jet Lag
Tropical Diseases
VaccinationOther - Useful resources (^ top of page)
Pictures, diagrams, photos, images, etc.Evidence based medicine
Online textbooks and journals
A-Z of UK Guidelines
A-Z of Online Videos
Medline
Other good health sites
Medical equipment products related to this topic (^ top of page)

Books related to this topic (^ top of page)
Travel Fit: Essential Exercises for When You Travel
Travellers' Good Health Guide
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