Travel Health Links

1. British National Formulary

www.bnf.org

2. British Global Travel Health Association

www.bgtha.org

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

www.medicines.org.uk

6. Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/en/travel-medicine.aspx

7. Fit for Travel (from Health Protection Scotland)

www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk

8. Focus on hepatitis B immunisations – scroll down to the bottom of the webpage to obtain PDF of the information

9. Focus on travel immunisation

10. Focus on vaccines and immunisations

11. Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Travel Section

https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/travel-abroad

12. Graphic Garden – cute clipart useful for bravery certificates

www.graphicgarden.com

13. Glasgow Travel Medicine Courses

http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/travel-medicine/about-ftm.aspx

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

http://www.hpa.org.uk/EventsProfessionalTraining/HealthProtectionAcademy/AdditionalOpportunitiesAndInformation/ImmunisationTrainingResources/

16. HPA Malaria Reference Laboratory

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/malaria-reference-laboratory-mrl

17. Health Protection Scotland (HPS) travel section

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/travel/index.aspx

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

http://www.nmc-uk.org/

21. National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)

www.nathnac.net  and  http://travelhealthpro.org.uk/

22. Ordering NHS Vaccines – ImmForm help sheets

https://portal.immform.dh.gov.uk/Logon.aspx?returnurl=%2f

23. PGDs and PSDs in General Practice from BMA, May 2015

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/employment/gp-practices/service-provision/prescribing/patient-group-directions

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

26. RCN Competences. Travel health nursing: career and competence development, RCN guidance

27. TRAVAX (from HPS – password protected)

www.travax.nhs.uk

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

1. American Travel Health Nurses Association

http://www.athna.com/

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Traveler’s Health

www.cdc.gov/travel

3. Google Maps – Map of the World

http://maps.google.co.uk/

4. Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.co.uk/

5. Google Translate

http://translate.google.com/

6. International Society of Travel Medicine

www.istm.org

Availability of rabies vaccine, rabies specific immunoglobulin and JE vaccine abroad click here

7. World Health Organisation – International Travel and Health

http://www.who.int/ith/en/