If you require foreign travel vaccinations, please call in to the Health Centre and pick up a pre-travel risk assessment form. Please state on it all countries including in-transit ones to determine what vaccinations are required. There is further information about countries and vaccinations required by clicking here and selecting the country/countries you intend travelling to.
It is important to contact the Health Centre as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you intend to travel. This is because these vaccines have to be ordered as they are not stock items. Once the doctor has decided which vaccines you require, they will be ordered on prescription to be collected from the Well Pharmacy on Dalbeattie High Street. You will then be contacted to make an appointment with the practice nurse to administer the vaccines.
It is YOUR responsibility to pick up YOUR vaccines from the pharmacy before your appointment and keep them in a fridge if it says so on the packet.
Please note that some medication(s) required for travel immunisations will be issued on a private prescription and will incur a fee payable at the pharmacy. This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and is therefore a chargeable service. There is a charge of £15.00 for advice regarding malaria prophylaxis, payable to the Health Centre at the time of your vaccination appointment.
Dalbeattie Medical Practice is a Licensed Yellow Fever Centre. The cost of a yellow fever vaccination together with the vaccination certificate is £55.00.
