Useful contacts

Internet sites

• National Travel Health Network and Centre
• Immunisations against Infectious Diseases
• Health Protection Agency
• Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the UK
• TRAVAX
• Fit for travel
• DH for travel advice
• Site for drug information, SPCs
• DVT and air travel
• World Health Organsiation
• Centres for Disease Prevention and Control
• British National Formulary
• Farillon: to order childhood vaccines
• Malaria for general public
• Vaccine companies

Telephone numbers

• National Travel Health Network and Centre (NATHNAC): 9am to midday, 2pm to 4pm, weekdays: 08456 026712
• HPA Malaria Reference Laboratory, London: 9:30am to 3:30pm, Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 02076 363924
• Hospital Protection Scotland (for TRAVAX users): 2pm to 4pm, weekdays: 01413 001130
• Hospital for tropical diseases, London: 08451 555000
• Royal Free Travel Health Centre: 02078 302885
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: 01517 089393
• GlaxoSmithKline – Enquiries for medical information department: 08081 009997
• Novartis vaccines: 01517 055000
• Sanofi Pasteur MSD: 01628 587693