
Travel Health Links
The following are some of my favourite websites related to travel medicine practice and include some direct links to invaluable key documents
UK based websites (in alphabetical order)
1. British National Formulary
2. British Global Travel Health Association
3. Department of Public Health – Immunisation page
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england/series/immunisation
4. Department for Health – Travel Advice on NHS Choices
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/TravelHealth/Pages/Travelhealthhome.aspx
5. Electronic Medicines Compendium
6. Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
7. Fit for Travel (from Health Protection Scotland)
8. Focus on hepatitis B immunisations – scroll down to the bottom of the webpage to obtain PDF of the information
11. Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Travel Section
12. Graphic Garden – cute clipart useful for bravery certificates
13. Glasgow Travel Medicine Courses
14. Health Protection Agency – travel section
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140714084352/
http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/TravelHealth/
15. HPA Immunisation Training Resources for Healthcare Professionals
16. HPA Malaria Reference Laboratory
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/malaria-reference-laboratory-mrl
17. Health Protection Scotland (HPS) travel section
18. Immunisation course from NHS Core Learning Unit
http://corelearning.skillsforhealth.org.uk/local/sfhadmin/login/index.php
19. Immunisation Against Infectious Disease (The Green Book)
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england/series/immunisation-against-infectious-disease-the-green-book
20. Nursing and Midwifery Council
21. National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)
22. Ordering NHS Vaccines – ImmForm help sheets
23. PGDs and PSDs in General Practice from BMA, May 2015
24. Recommendations for the Practice of Travel Medicine
http://www.travelmedicinejournal.com/article/S1477-8939(12)00067-1/fulltext
25. Royal College of Nursing and the RCN Travel Health page
RCN competency document and Travel health on the Public Forum pages
27. TRAVAX (from HPS – password protected)
28. Travel Health Guidance for Schools – produced by TRAVAX but also available on their public site, Fit for Travel
http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/media/670038/travel-health-guidance-for-schools-aug-2017.pdf
29. Vaccine Update from Public Health England
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england/series/vaccine-update
International websites (in alphabetical order)
1. American Travel Health Nurses Association
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Traveler’s Health
3. Google Maps – Map of the World
4. Google Scholar
5. Google Translate
6. International Society of Travel Medicine
Availability of rabies vaccine, rabies specific immunoglobulin and JE vaccine abroad click here
7. World Health Organisation – International Travel and Health