Booking a Travel Vaccination
All requests should be made using the travel vaccine request form on your surgery’s website. If a patient calls to request travel vaccinations, they should be directed to fill in the form on the surgery website. If a patient does not want to use the form on the website, they can come into the surgery and fill out a physical form.
💬 You can send the Accurx template ‘Travel vaccination form’ which contains the link to the form
Triaging Travel Vaccine Forms
Reception Lead
Travel vaccination forms will automatically go to the Travel Vaccination folder in your Generic Surgery Inbox.
- Check every morning and add patients to Reception leads’ book on EMIS
- Please also add a copy of the form to the patient’s record on EMIS
- Use the new POST triage tool (Zingtree) below to triage travel vaccine requests 👇
You can also open it in a new tab through this link → Zingtree - Travel Vaccinations
Lead Nurse will also supervise / periodically check travel vaccine requests, and is available to take any questions
Booking Yellow Fever Vaccines
We can only administer yellow fever vaccines at Knights Hill, Kingfisher and Deptford Surgery. Patients from all other sites can be offered an appointment at one of these sites, or they can go to a private travel vaccine clinic. Yellow fever vaccines are not covered by the NHS, so patients must pay £63 for yellow fever vaccine.
To book a patient at another surgery:
- Make a note of the patient’s name
- Open EMIS for the site you want to book at (EMIS codes: KH - 12161, KF - 2259, DF - 15331)
- Find an appropriate slot with a team member that can administer yellow fever vaccines (David Atherton, Natasha Sinclair or Jefferson Sison)
- Right click slot → click ‘Book unregistered patient…’
If the patient needs other NHS vaccines as well as yellow fever, these should be booked separately, at their registered site.
F2F Appointment (Vaccine Administration)
- If the patient has NOT had the vaccine before or is due a dose, administer the vaccine as per the relevant vaccine-specific page(s) of the clinical template and using the technique detailed in the ‘Administering Immunisations’ section of the page Vaccinations.
- Open the clinical template ‘Travel Vaccinations (Ardens)’ on EMIS and ensure that all relevant pages are complete following vaccine administration.
- Ensure that correct coding is added under either Childhood or Adult Immunisation categories.
For all travel vaccinations, please remember to print the prescription, do not process via EPS. This is because the vaccines are part of our own supply.
Vaccine Schedule Data | Td/IPV (Polio, Tetanus & Diphtheria, combined) | Typhoid | Cholera | Hepatitis A |
Time vaccine must be given before departure | at least 1 month before travel:
For a person who has never had the vaccine → 2 doses must be given, with second dose 4 weeks after the first
If last vaccine given >10 years ago → then booster vaccine required | at least 1 month before travel | at least 1 week before travelling | at least 2 weeks before travelling |
Name & format of vaccine | REVAXIS® (adults and children ≥ 6 years): injection | Typhim Vi® (adults and children ≥ 2 years): injection | drink or capsule: 2 doses given 1 to 6 weeks apart | Avaxim® ( ≥ 16 years): injection, 2 doses given 6-12 months apart
Avaxim® Junior (age 1-15 years): injection, 2 doses → 6-36 months apart |
Protection offered by vaccination | after 3 doses → 5 years; after 4 doses → 10 years (maximum protection) | 1 injection → 3 years’ protection | 2 doses → up to 2 years protection | 1 injection → 1 year’s protection; 2 injections → up to 25 years |
Contraindications | • Serious allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine
• Serious allergic reaction any component of the vaccine (including neomycin, streptomycin or polymyxin)
• Not suitable for patients with Phenylketonuria
• Current febrile or acute illness | • Serious allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine
• Individuals who develop hypersensitivity reactions after vaccination
• Serious allergic reaction any component of the vaccine
• Current febrile or acute illness | • Serious allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine
• Individuals who develop hypersensitivity reactions after vaccination
• Serious allergic reaction any component of the vaccine
• Current febrile or acute illness |