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Important Update regarding the TRAVAX Travel Health Advice Line

13 May 2025

Public Health Scotland (PHS) are in the process of undertaking a review of the national travel health services that are provided by PHS. For clarity, the review will only focus on the national travel health service, i.e. TRAVAX and fitfortravel websites, professional health advice line and TURAS travel health training resources.

TRAVAX travel health advice line and forum

Whilst the review is being undertaken, the TRAVAX travel health advice line and forum that supports travel health professionals will be suspended as of 13 May 2025 until further notice.

Travel health professionals with clinical enquiries relating to travel health practice are advised to contact the NaTHNaC Advice Line for health professionals.

PHS Yellow Fever Program

PHS will continue to have responsibility for designation of Yellow Fever Centres within Scotland for the foreseeable future and current processes for existing clinics should continue to be followed.

  • Non-clinical enquiries relating to yellow fever such as, enquiries relating to centre designation, training requirements and ICVP requests should be emailed to the yellow fever mailbox: phs.yellowfever@phs.scot

During the review, TRAVAX and fitfortravel websites continue to be updated reactively, where clinically required, and answers to many common enquiries can be found in: