Updated 18 November 2019
The Sussex Travel Clinic 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 and 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, Hove is provided from a shared building that provides consulting rooms for independent practitioners. The clinic has a shared waiting room and toilets and a private, separate reception room and a consultation room where the vaccinations are undertaken. The building has wheelchair access and the consulting room is accessible from the ground floor. The service offers travel vaccination and related health care advice.
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 activity: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury.