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Focus on Travel Immunisation

06 December 2011

The General Practitioner Committee (GPC) has published new guidance to help clarify which travel immunisations are available on the NHS and which can be charged for privately.

The guidance, Focus on Travel Immunisations, can be downloaded in PDF format from the British Medical Association website.

The GPC has divided travel immunisations into three categories:

  • Those that must always be given as part of NHS provision through GMS Additional Services.
  • Those that cannot be given as an NHS service.
  • Those that can be given as either NHS or as a private service.

Category three relates to Hepatitis B vaccine (monovalent) and Meningitis ACWY (quadrivalent meningococcal meningitis vaccine; A.C,Y and W135). This is the category that causes most confusion for practitioners and the guidance should prove most helpful in this situation.