The Travel Clinic at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) offers a range of services to ensure safe and healthy travel including:
- Complex travel medicine: Tailored advice and vaccinations for travellers with complex itineraries or health conditions.
- Organisational screening: Health screenings for employees of organisations who travel frequently.
- Post-travel screening: Health checks for individuals returning from tropical regions to identify any potential infections or health issues.
For pre-travel health advice and vaccinations, we offer doctor and nurse led appointments both on the NHS and privately.
NHS appointments
To book an NHS appointment, ask your healthcare provider (GP, specialist nurse, midwife, or pharmacist) to send an email referral to uclh.
Appointments are for individuals with underlying health conditions or other factors that increase travel risk e.g. complicated, remote, lengthy trips, pregnancy, young children, or older people.
Private appointments
Private pre-travel appointments are available for a fee. Appointments with a nurse cost £50, and appointments with a doctor cost £150.
If you would like to book an appointment, please complete the self-referral form or attach a completed PDF and email to uclh.
For more information see the FAQs.
Patient contact
General enquiries
Other contact information
Opening hours:
Tuesday: 9:15am - 12:45pm
Wednesday: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Thursday: 9:45am - 1:15pm
Friday: 9:15am - 12:45pm
Address
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
Outpatient Clinic 2nd Floor
Mortimer Market Centre
Capper Street
London, WC1E 6JB
Referral
Referral address
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
Outpatient Clinic 2nd Floor
Mortimer Market Centre
Capper Street
London, WC1E 6JB
Complex travel medicine
We offer travel advice on immunisations for:
- babies and infants
- specialist consultations for pregnant and breastfeeding women
- advice on travel health, anti-malarials, and vaccinations.
We also provide risk assessments for travellers over 65, consultations for those with allergies or blood disorders, and management plans for immunosuppressed individuals.
Organisational screening
Organisational screening is available for individuals in organisations with a current contract with the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) travel medicine service.
Post-travel screening
The travel clinic at HTD offers both NHS and private nurse-led consultations to people of all ages returning from tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world to check for infections.
This service is suitable for people who have returned from their travels more than three months ago and don’t have any symptoms but are worried that they may be at risk.
Travel medicine education and training
A travel medicine course is offered as part of junior doctor training programme, conducted by NaTHNaC and Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD).
Travel vaccinations
The travel clinic at HTD provides a specialist vaccination and vaccine advice service for tropical diseases such as rabies, dengue and yellow fever. The clinic specialist's can help travellers assess the safety, appropriateness, and timing of vaccinations they may need before a trip.
Travel clinic FAQs
Find out answers to some of the travel clinic services most commonly asked questions.
