Travel Health Update for a RCN Webinar
HELLO – this page is just for you! On 8th January I recorded a webinar for the RCN on a travel health update. The information was up to date at the time of delivery, but things may have changed since that time so refer to other resources as well, for example NaTHNaC and TRAVAX. I will keep this page up for a while, depending on how out of date the webinar becomes, travel is a fast moving area of practice!
Over the years, I’ve enjoyed designing ‘tools’ and resources for health care professionals to use in their daily practice – created to make the process easier. When using tools such as vaccine and malaria charts, advice leaflets etc. make sure though that you are always using the latest version. I would ask you to read the copyright and disclaimer statements please.
KEY RESOURCES in TRAVEL HEALTH
RCN Travel health
career & competence document
NaTHNaC – National Travel Health Network and Centre
TRAVAX – The A to Z of healthy travel. (Password needed)
Fit for Travel, health information for travellers
NHS choices public pages for travel
Immunisation against Infectious disease
essential publication
Guidelines for malaria prevention
in travellers from the UK
resources
GENERAL RESOURCES
- RCN Travel Health page here
- To sign up to the Vaccine Update and/or subscribe to updates on other publications such as new chapters of the Green Book
- NaTHNaC – to subscribe to alerts and newsletter here and see right hand side of page
- If a TRAVAX user click on Account on the top menu and subscribe to news and outbreaks from there
- NaTHNaC TravelHealthPro eBook
- NaTHNaC factsheets
- The new BNF app here
- Practice Nurse Travel Health Update articles here
- My Blog here
- My Facebook Page (Travel Health Training Ltd) here
- Facebook page for Travel Health Professionals UK and Ireland and RCN GPN Forum
HEPATITIS A & B INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
- Guidance on shortage of Hepatitis A vaccine from Public Health England
- Guidance on Hepatitis B: vaccine recommendations during supply constraints from Public Health England (includes the information leaflet) NEW: includes ‘Plan for phased re-introduction of hepatitis B vaccine for lower priority groups in 2018’ published in February 2018.
- November 2017 – prioritising vaccine for travellers now combination A+B vaccine is gradually returning here
- Information about country advice changes and look at the polio vaccine advice within the country information
- Guidance for the Hepatitis A shortage from NaTHNaC published 23 June 2017
- Frequently Asked Questions from TRAVAX Regarding the Hepatitis A Vaccine Dose Sparing Recommendations fon 23.06.17 (but you’ll need your login details)
- Pharmaceutical company information for shortages – online GSK and phone numbers: GSK Tel: 0208 047 5000 Sanofi Pasteur Tel: 0148 350 5515 MSD Tel: 0199 245 2094 PaxVax Tel: 0152 521 7516
- E LEARNING 1) Nuggets of Knowledge – Hepatitis A vaccine 2) Hepatitis A vaccine Shortages
MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE
- Green Book chapter 22 on meningococcal disease here
- Men ACWY issues detailed in a blog here
- Meninigitis certificate for Visa purposes here from GSK and here from Pfizer
- Links to the immunisation charts for childhood schedules and much more on immunisation topics. See in particular item no. 3
YELLOW FEVER
- New patient information leaflet on YF from NaTHNaC
- Yellow Fever Zone on Travel Health Pro, and the Training Portal
- Yellow fever resources from the WHO including outbreak information and many other items
- Yellow fever factsheet from WHO
- Yellow fever chapter 35 from the Green Book
- Yellow fever map from ECDC
- CDC interactive map – Expanded Yellow Fever Vaccine Recommendation Areas in Brazil
- Yellow fever certificate video from NaTHNaC on You Tube (currently link not working 08.12.17 )
- Example of yellow fever certificate on TravelHealthPro
- Yellow Fever course from Health Protection Scotland (remember this does NOT replace NaTHNaC training if you are a registered Yellow Fever Centre in England, Wales or N. Ireland) see here
RABIES
- NEW – short online learning for rabies resources
- Map of endemicity of rabies from the WHO see here
- Resources for rabies and make sure you scroll right to the bottom of the page
- Public Health England guidelines on requesting rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis here
- Public Health England guidelines on managing rabies post-exposure treatment
- Public Health England Rabies post exposure risk assessment form and calendar see here
ZIKA VIRUS
- Zika information – all the information can be accessed from the HOT NEWS page
- WHO Zika app here
- For the Futurelearn platform see the HOT NEWS page – for the Coursera platform see here
MALARIA, MOSQUITO BITE PREVENTION and other insect borne diseases
- Malaria data , guidance and analysis
- Imported malaria into the UK statistics
- UK malaria annual report here
- NEW – Practical aspects of insect bite prevention – here
- E learning course for malaria (Malaria Matters) based on PHE guidelines
- Children’s malaria tablet chart from NaTHNaC here
- Mandatory logo for selling medicines online here and register of authorised sellers of medicines here
- Maloff Protect manufacturer website here and SPC – see ‘risk materials’ at the top of the page. MHRA announcement here
FINAL RESOURCES
- FGM and travel resourcesA few tools by image below
I hope I’ve remembered everything! If not please e mail me at jane@janechiodini.co.uk
If you’ve found this helpful please let me know. Similarly if you’ve had problems with it, I’d appreciate knowing what the issue was so I can improve it for next time!
