Archived: Sussex Travel Clinic Limited

Updated 18 November 2019

The Sussex Travel Clinic Limited is a private clinic which is part of the Vaccination UK group, that provide a similar service through a range of clinics across the country. It provides independent travel health advice, travel and non-travel vaccinations, and blood tests for antibody screening. People of all ages intending to travel abroad can seek advice regarding health risks and receive both information, necessary vaccinations and medicines. In addition, the clinic holds a licence to administer yellow fever vaccines. The clinic also provides a vaccination service for occupational health service providers, a phlebotomy service and flu vaccinations.

At the time of the inspection, the clinic manager was the registered manager. A registered manager is a person who is registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run. The registered manager held the International Society of Travel Medicine Certificate (ISTM) in Travel Health and was a member and an examiner for the membership exam of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow.

The Sussex Travel Clinic is in a converted building in Worthing with two consulting rooms. The building does not have wheelchair access but clients with limited mobility can be seen at the Sussex Travel Clinic in Hove.

Opening times are:

Monday to Thursday 9am-7pm,

Friday 9am-4pm and Saturday 9am-1pm.

The clinic is registered with the Care Quality Commission under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to provide the following regulated activities: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury.

Updated 18 November 2019

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of The Sussex Travel Clinic, Worthing on 24 May 2019 as part of our routine inspection programme to rate services. The overall rating for the practice was good. The practice was also rated good for providing safe, effective, caring and responsive services. However, it was rated as requires improvement for providing well-led services. This was because:

• The clinic had systems to identify, investigate and learn from safety incidents and complaints. However, action points from significant events were not always implemented and followed up.

The full comprehensive report on the 24 May 2019 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for The Sussex Travel Clinic Ltd on our website at .

After the inspection in May 2019 the practice wrote to us with an action plan, outlining how they would make the necessary improvements to comply with the regulations.

This inspection was an announced focused inspection carried out on 21 October 2019 to ensure that the practice was now complying with the regulations.

At this inspection our key findings were:

• The practice had improved their systems to ensure that action points from significant events were implemented and followed up.

The practice is now rated good for providing well-led services.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care