Doctors letter about Travel Clinics

Below is a letter we have drafted for our members to send to their local doctors and medical service. It would be a good idea to customise it and take it personally down to them.

To whom it may concern,

We have just started a new PGD authorised Travel Service at our pharmacy. 

We can now administer most major vaccines including:

• Hep A
• Hep B
• DTP
• Typhoid
• Rabies
• Meningitis
• Cholera
• Japanese Encephalitis

In addition to this we now offer all types of antimalarials (including PoMs), including:

• Malarone
• Malarone Paediatric
• Doxycycline
• Lariam
• Chloroquine
• Paludrine

We hope to work with you to maintain excellent travel health services in our area.

All our appointments are walk-in or booked appointments (patients can call our regular pharmacy number). Our lead pharmacist who is fully trained and PGD authorised works full time so any urgent requirements by patients could be easily referred.

We also have the ability to request bespoke PGDs from our authorising multidisciplinary team, if there are any other areas we could help you with we would be more than willing to help.

Attached is a letter detailing our service to patients who would like more information.

Kindest regards,

Hi,

Our pharmacy has now started a new Travel Service available for your convenience. If you are travelling abroad, why not pop in and ask one of our friendly staff what you wold need. Advice is completely impartial and you wont be charged a consultation fee.

We can now administer most travel vaccines including:

• Hep A
• Hep B
• DTP
• Typhoid
• Rabies
• Meningitis
• Cholera
• Japanese Encephalitis

These vaccines are especially useful if you find yourself travelling outside of Europe to places like Asia, South America or Africa.

In addition to this we now offer all types of antimalarials (including PoMs), including:

• Malarone
• Malarone Paediatric
• Doxycycline
• Lariam
• Chloroquine
• Paludrine

These medicines are extremely useful if you are travelling to any endemic country such as parts of Africa, Asia and South America.

If you have any queries about our service just give us a call on our regular pharmacy number. If you would like to know more about travel advice for specific locations have a look at:

http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/

Hope to see you soon!