Useful Resources

USEFUL INTERNET SITES

Foreign & Commonwealth Office .... www.fco.gov.uk/knowbeforeyougo
NHS travel site ............................ www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk
Travel information site ................. www.travelhealth.co.uk
Department of Health .................. www.dh.gov.uk
Immunisation issues ................... www.immunisation.nhs.uk
Malaria for the general public ....... www.malariahotspots.co.uk
Lonely Planet guide books & advice www.lonelyplanet.com
Centre for Disease Control ........... www.cdc.gov/travel (US-based site)



USEFUL BOOKS
Travellers’ Health – How to stay healthy abroad
Devised and edited by Dr Richard Dawood
Oxford University Press. 4th edition 2002. ISBN 0192629476

Bugs Bites and Bowels
by Dr Jane Wilson Howarth
Cadogan Books, London. 2006. ISBN 186011332X

The Rough Guide to Travel Health
by Dr Nick Jones
Rough Guides Ltd. ISBN 1843533243

Everything you need to know before you go – Information and advice for independent travel
by Mark Ashton
Abroadsheet Publications. 3rd Edition 1998. ISBN 0952512823


SUPPLIERS OF TRAVEL EQUIPMENT

Homeway Medical Ltd ................... 01980 626361
www.travelwithcare.co.uk
MASTA ....................................... 0113 238 7575
www.masta.org
Nomad ....................................... 020 8889 7014
www.nomadtravel.co.uk
Trailfinders ................................. 0207 938 3999
www.trailfinders.co.uk/onestop.htm
Lifesystems ................................ 01189 811433
www.lifesystems.co.uk



INSURANCE COMPANIES (information taken from www.gapyear.com)

Sta Travel ................................... 0800 1 600 599
Visas Australia Company .............. 01270 626626
Bridge the World ......................... 0870 444 7474



USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
(All these telephone numbers attract a premium rate call charge fee)

Hospital for Tropical Diseases ....... 09061 337733
(also run a travel clinic)
Hospital for Tropical Diseases ....... 09061 991992
(Fax-Back information service)
TRAVAX ...................................... 0906 550 0059
Malaria Reference Laboratory ........ 09065 508 908
MASTA ....................................... 09068 224 100
MASTA ....................................... 01705 553 933
(for more than 6 destinations)



FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBERS

General enquiries ........................ 020 7270 1500
Consular enquiries ...................... 020 7008 0218
Travel advice .............................. 020 7008 0232 / 33
Visa enquiries ............................. 020 7008 8438

The Foreign Office provides a travel advice information service on CEEFAX page 470 (BBC 2).


WORLDWIDE TRAVEL CLINIC DIRECTORIES

International Society of Travel Medicine www.istm.org
American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene www.astmh.org


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