NHS Travel Vaccination headache.

katejo

I gave up on getting them from the GP 3 years ago when my practice claimed to have run out of stock and had no idea when more would arrive. They referred me to Nomad Travel. I have just been back there for boosters for my next trip.
In an ideal world, the NHS should provide them for public health reasons but I also appreciate the argument that those who can afford to travel, should have to pay for protection.
The jabs which I now have last for 10 years so I won't have to pay up again for quite a while.

IAmWales

katejo wrote: »

I gave up on getting them from the GP 3 years ago when my practice claimed to have run out of stock and had no idea when more would arrive. They referred me to Nomad Travel. I have just been back there for boosters for my next trip.
In an ideal world, the NHS should provide them for public health reasons but I also appreciate the argument that those who can afford to travel, should have to pay for protection.
The jabs which I now have last for 10 years so I won't have to pay up again for quite a while.

In an ideal world people would take responsibility and pay for their own injections. The NHS should not have to cater to those who are otherwise so inept to willingly expose themselves to disease.

zagfles

IAmWales wrote: »

In an ideal world people would take responsibility and pay for their own injections. The NHS should not have to cater to those who are otherwise so inept to willingly expose themselves to disease.

So, no treatment for smokers, alcoholics, or the obese then?

Shimrod

DigForVictory wrote: »

You may find that to get all the shots you need in the time frame remaining, it makes sense to go to a professional travel clinic where while you pay, you know you'll have a full set of shots and up to date medical advice.

There has been a worldwide shortage of the Hepatitis A vaccine for some time. It took us three months to find one (between November and January) - even the private clinics didn't have any. We got prescriptions for the GP but had to pay the standard prescription charge. At a private clinic the cost would have been around £40.

Nick_C

zagfles wrote: »

So, no treatment for smokers, alcoholics, or the obese then?

Correct!!!

bigadaj

zagfles wrote: »

So, no treatment for smokers, alcoholics, or the obese then?

Again would help if people would take some responsibility for their lives.

My last GP said he was in favour of smokers, paid loads of tax and more likely to drop dead younger without the cost of long term care.

Understand his points.

malkie76

814man wrote: »

Why should the hard working tax paying folk of this country, many of whom cannot afford a holiday, be expected to pay for your holiday vaccinations?

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leylandsunaddict wrote: »

The NHS has far too many calls on its increasingly limited resources without providing people with free vaccinations so they can go on holiday.

Worth pointing out that it's far cheaper for the NHS to provide free vaccinations than deal with the consequences of contracting a nasty disease while abroad, and making it home for treatment.

bigadaj

malkie76 wrote: »

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Worth pointing out that it's far cheaper for the NHS to provide free vaccinations than deal with the consequences of contracting a nasty disease while abroad, and making it home for treatment.

So isolate and don't treat the idiots who can't be bothered to pay for vaccinations when they've spent a few grab on the holiday.

Simple.

London50

Asomodai wrote: »

Considering I have always worked from age 16 til now (31), have always paid my National insurance then I think I have the right to get the vaccinations I am entitled to and paid for many times over. In fact I haven't had a GP in over 8 years until just yesterday. I have never gone on holiday abroad (Did it once for work) the only this is happening is because it is a honeymoon that was paid for from wedding gifts. Tar and brush mate?

That and of course, it is in the public interest that I do get them to prevent possible epidemics when I return.

WOW...15 years working and paying your NI and you believe you have THE RIGHT to these vaccinations. Well yes you do have the right to them and the NHS doctor has THE RIGHT to charge you for them if they so choose.
As a child for me there was NO NHS so our parents has to pay for all treatments from a doctor and mine had worked far more than 15 years.
The NHS these days is so overwhelmed and due to a number of factors is underfunded and like it or not there are far more important uses of the meager funds they have than holiday jabs.
If you choose to take the honeymoon then spend a little less while away and use SOME of the wedding gift on the jabs.

malkie76

bigadaj wrote: »

So isolate and don't treat the idiots who can't be bothered to pay for vaccinations when they've spent a few grab on the holiday.

Simple.

I'm suggesting it's cost effective for the NHS to provide free vaccinations, rather than be lumbered with the costs of treating infectious or pathogenic diseases.

The NHS treats all comers, irrespective of the underlying cause of their disease, hence we should be happy that vaccinations are free because ultimately that saves the NHS money.