This two-day interactive training session is intended for nurses and other healthcare professionals new to the field of travel health, those returning to travel health after a long gap, or those already practicing but who may not have undertaken formal training in the subject and who wish to update and expand their current knowledge. The course will be delivered by a travel health nurse specialist.

Having completed the course, you should:

• understand the importance and process of risk assessment of travellers/trips and how to apply this in practice
• have a good general knowledge of travel vaccines, the diseases they prevent and how to deliver appropriate preventative advice to travellers
• be aware of non-vaccine preventable diseases and topical issues in travel health and be able to provide evidence-based advice to travellers
• understand how to access the most up to date resources for use in the travel consultation and identify when it is appropriate to use them
• be able to plan vaccination schedules for itineraries
• have increased knowledge of global malaria and malaria in travellers returning to the UK
• be able to identify which travellers are at higher risk of getting malaria and which are more likely to die from malaria, tailoring advice accordingly
• understand the principles of bite avoidance, malaria chemoprophylaxis and the importance of prompt malaria diagnosis
• be able to deliver evidence-based advice to travellers about malaria prevention
• demonstrate an understanding of professional issues in the travel consultation.

Course content includes:

• the travel consultation
• tools and resources
• risk assessments
• vaccine preventable diseases
• non-vaccine preventable diseases
• other health risks
• case studies and scheduling of vaccines
• legal aspects and responsibilities of the travel health practitioner
• malaria
• mosquito borne diseases
• the complex traveller
• FGM and the travel consultation
• Covid-19 and advising travellers.

Attending the course will require:

• access course to a computer, laptop, tablet, or iPad with a large screen (i.e. bigger than a phone) with working speakers and microphone
• a separate mobile phone (menti.com will be used for the interactive element of the course; the trainer will provide a code for this when the meeting starts)
• a good internet connection
• an environment where you will not be disturbed, as you will need to be present for the whole course. 

After completing the course, it is recommended to have a period of supervision in clinical practice whilst you develop your clinical skills. You should also be assessed by your supervising practitioner as competent to undertake a travel consultation alone. 

Please note: There are four tickets available for participants from each borough. If tickets for your borough have sold out, email maria.powazka@nhs.net

The course counts as 13.5 hours CPD and, for the purpose of NMC revalidation, is 13.5 participatory hours.