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The Travel Clinic can help with ensuring optimum business travel health for the corporate and commercial traveller working overseas.
If numbers are suitable, we can arrange workplace consultations in advance, for business conferences or meetings abroad and administer a planned course of necessary vaccinations for many diseases including tick borne disease, found in Eastern Europe or Asia.
Our business travel health assessments will check current health, conduct medical tests, including blood and urine examination. We also administer immunisations, and give specific travel advice for potential problem foreign destinations.
The most relevant health and safety measure is that of prevention for employees:
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1000 (MHSWR) states that employers must appoint ‘one or more competent persons’ to assist in undertaking relevant health and safety measures.
Nevertheless, the role of the risk assessment remains a key legal factor in attempting to ensure that the modern workplace promotes health.
This still applies to employees working overseas, which is where the Travel Clinic Limited can help. Appointments are available at short notice with flexibility with times and days.
Vaccines we can offer vary from varicella to mantoux and BCG, as well as MMR
Testing for blood screening is performed on a regular basis and results are normally returned within a week.
Our team of dedicated nurses continues to grow, allowing us to further expand an important part of our business, the facility to train other nurses working in the community
We are registered with the Healthcare Commission and are still the only registered travel clinic in the Cambridge and Suffolk area and are happy for you to
visit us in both our new and existing premises.
We are open Monday – Saturday at our Cambridge clinic at 41 Hills Road where there is ample car parking. We also have a clinic in Ipswich which is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays we aim to see people within two days of their enquiry.
Typical procedures such:
ECG
Full range of blood tests
Urine testing
Blood pressure
Eye tests
Height to weight ratio,
Body Mass Index and waist circumference
Lifestyle advice and cardiac risk assessments are available.
The role of The Travel Clinic when advising their clients is to ensure that they are as fit and prepared as possible for their assignment. This is accomplished by:
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Ensuring that overseas work will not exacerbate existing medical conditions
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Immunisation, malaria prophylaxis and treatment and advice on other preventative measure to protect against injury and illness
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Medical and first aid equipment
Gastric problems account for 45% of illness of which 60% are due to infective enteropathogens such as shigella and e.coli, which may be prevented by recent vaccines.
Specific advice is needed on day to day living in foreign countries where communicable diseases are rife
Contaminated food and water is a major cause of illness in business travellers although less so if eating and drinking is confined to first class hotels. Avoiding unsafe food and water can sometimes be difficult, when being entertained by enthusiastic hosts, unless a strategy is planned in advance!
It may be wise to always carry an anti-diarrhoeal preparation to make sure that you are able to attend important business meetings or to help you make long journeys without having to make frequent and inconvenient use of the toilet.
Unfamiliar surroundings, especially when combined with excessive alcohol consumption can lead to uncharacteristic behaviour including sexual risk taking. "Unsafe" sex, particularly with commercial sex workers, may pose serious infections risks including HIV.
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