Can This Be Right, To Charge For Injections?

[trt]

My carer and her friend, are going to Vietnam in November.

They live in different towns/villages, and her friends surgery dont have a travel clinic for injections, and told to go to Boots, which cost over a £100.00.

Yet my carer who lives about 11 miles away in a small village, gets it free.

Seems strange to me!

[bednobs]

most travel injections aren't available on the NHS anyway

[bednobs]

ps, it's not right - you/she has it wrong somewhere. Unless she is just choosing not to go to the travel clinic and is choosing to go to boots instead

[trt]

## she is just choosing not to go to the travel clinic and is choosing to go to boots instead ##

Bedknobs, she went to surgery first, I can assure you, and my carer didn't have to pay at hers.

[jno]

are they getting vaccinations for the same illnesses?

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Travel-immunisation/Pages/Introduction.aspx

[bednobs]

here we have 1 surgery who does a travel clinic. maybe your carers friend wasnt willing to travel to it?

[Buenchico]

The vaccinations which are recommended by NaTHNaC (which is the body funded by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to provide health information to people travelling abroad and to health professionals) are for Tetanus (which many people will have up-to-date vaccinations for anyway), Hepatitis A (where vaccination is usually free on the NHS) and possibly Typhoid (which also qualifies for free vaccination on the NHS). Only certain groups of people (such as aid workers or people who anticipate engaging in unprotected sex) are likely to require additional vaccinations:
https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/country/240/vietnam#Vaccine_recommendations

So (unless there's a reason why more than the basic three vaccinations are required) it does seem a little odd that the vaccinations aren't being offered free of charge (in line with the information in Trt's link).

[hc4361]

Essential vaccinations for Thailand are Hep A and Tetanus, both free from your NHS GP.

Recommended vaccinations are Cholera; Diphtheria; Hepatitis B; Japanese Encephalitis; Rabies; Typhoid, some of which must be paid for.

Your carer opted for the essential vaccines only and her friend had the optional ones as well

[trt]

## Essential vaccinations for Thailand are Hep A and Tetanus, both free from your NHS GP.##

Its Vietnam hc, Tnot Thailand, and they are having the same injections, tetanus top up, Hep A, and Typhoid.

[hc4361]

Sorry, don't know why I thought it was Thailand.

[trt]

## So (unless there's a reason why more than the basic three vaccinations are required) it does seem a little odd that the vaccinations aren't being offered free of charge (in line with the information in Trt's link).##

Thanks Chris, thats what I find odd.

[trt]

## Sorry, don't know why I thought it was Thailand. ##

No probs hc, which gives me more purpose for an edit button, I was on about 2 days ago to the Ed.

[Mamyalynne]

You have no need to edit your OP, you wrote 'Vietnam'.

[EcclesCake]

My surgery has never charged me for essential jags. The ones that are recommended and charged for I conclude are sufficiently low risk if I take reasonable precautions I don't bother with.

Different surgeries do have different policies though, a little noodle on the web should reveal a better deal than boots though.

[tamborine]

Ooo eccles, I need an essential jag ;)

Yellow fever jabs I pay for when travelling to mid & far east.

[trt]

## You have no need to edit your OP, you wrote 'Vietnam'. ##

It was hc post, I was on about Mamya.

[Mamyalynne]

hc managed to correct his slight error, it is a drum you can stop beating I fear.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Our doctor gives travel jabs free on the principle that the jabs are cheaper than treating us if we catch something nasty.

[trt]

## hc managed to correct his slight error, it is a drum you can stop beating I fear.

He didn't correct it Mamya, he had to write another post, and shouldn't that be ''you can't stop beating I fear''?

The drum beat goes on :-)

[EDDIE51]

Boots do flu injections, they have their own that you pay for or the NHS one you don't pay for. People that want a flu jab but do not qualify for a free one can get it by paying. Possibly the same situation for travel jabs?