Travel Information

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.

There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

Travel Questionnaire

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday. To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)

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Repeat Prescribing

From 1st February the surgery has changed its repeat prescribing policy to come into line with Primary Care Trust and other best practice guidelines, and we can no longer accept prescription orders by telephone.

Whilst this surgery has never had safety issues with our current system, we will be subject to CQC inspection from 1st April and we feel obliged to come into line with what is nationally regarded as best and safest practice, and which is already normal practice in almost all Hartlepool practices.

There are now three options for ordering:-

1) Keep the white half of your last prescription. When you are ready to re-order, tick the boxes opposite the items needed, and drop the form into a prescription box at the entrance to the surgery.

2) You can register for on-line access and subsequently order via this web site. Please ask at reception for the access information required. You need this information before trying to register. As well as online ordering of prescriptions, you will also be able to make and cancel appointments.

3) You can take the white side of your prescription to your community pharmacy and ask them to order on your behalf. They will then accept your telephone orders or order automatically for you. It is also now possible to arrange for your community pharmacy to collect prescriptions on your behalf.

Patient Group

Please see the Patient Group tab on the right hand side of our home page.

We encourage our patients to join this group and hopefully regularly give us their views and contribute to the practice's future policies.

Further Information

Patient Group

Survey Report