We offer a travel vaccination service. It is important when you are planning to travel abroad that you make an appointment with a us in well in advance of your travel.
The following travel vaccines are available free on the NHS:
- polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)
- typhoid
- hepatitis A
- cholera
You’ll have to pay for travel vaccinations against:
For more information on travel please visit:
Period delay tablets – We are unable to offer this service on the NHS but you can seek support from your local pharmacy
Use of Diazepam to help with a fear of flying:
At Crawley Road Medical Centre, we will NOT prescribe Diazepam for patients who wish to use it for fear of flying. We have made this decision for the following reasons:
- Diazepam is a sedative.
- Sedative drugs can make you fall asleep which could place you at an increased risk to developing blood clots (DVT) especially if your flight is over 4 hours long.
- Diazepam is a benzodiazepine and a small proportion of people experience effects of aggression, disinhibition and behave in ways that they normally wouldn’t do. This could impact on safety of you and your fellow travellers or could lead you to get in trouble with the law.
- National prescribing guidelines don’t allow the use of benzodiazepines in cases of phobia.
- In several countries, diazepam and similar drugs are illegal.
- Diazepam has a long half-life which means it stays in your system for a significant period of time and you may fail random drug testing if you are subjected to such testing.