Looking for a travel clinic in Edinburgh?
TrExMed Travel Clinic Edinburgh offers all the usual services you would expect from a specialist travel clinic:
- Pre-travel health advice and individual risk assessments
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Vaccinations
(including
yellow fever,
Japanese encephalitis,
chikungunya,
dengue
etc.),
antimalarial tablets and other
prescription travel medicines
- Blood tests to check HIV, Hepatitis B & C status (for occupational health and visa purposes)
- TB tests (tuberculin skin tests and IGRA blood tests)
- Pre-deployment and visa medicals
NB: Corporate, group or school rates / arrangements by request
Who are we?
TrExMed is a specialist travel clinic and expedition consultancy service run by two partners, Dr Jim Bond (Consultant in Travel Medicine) and Nicky Armstrong (Specialist Travel Nurse Practitioner). Both Nicky and Jim have over 27 years' experience of working in Travel Medicine and related fields.
We love travelling ourselves, and find seeing travellers one of the more enjoyable sides to our work. We are aware that many travellers need to seek expert advice vaccinations or malaria tablets at short notice and outside working hours and we aim to fulfil this need at the clinic.
Jim and Nicky have both completed the Diploma of Travel Medicine. Nicky is an Associate Member and Jim a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Jim is also an active Fellow of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM).
What makes TrExMed different?
We realise that we are not the only dedicated travel clinic in the Edinburgh area. What we feel make us different are our:
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Location, Trexmed Travel Clinic Edinburgh is centrally located and particularly handy for the South and SW of Edinburgh, with good bus connections and close to bicycle routes.
- Out-of-hours appointment times, convenient for busy working people and families. 'Last-minute' travellers can also usually be accommodated.
- Independent, critical appraisal of the latest international evidence on travel health risks by experienced, hands-on Travel Medicine experts: We do not blindly follow illogical, out-dated and sometimes patient-unfriendly national vaccine listings on e.g. TravelHealthPro.
- One-stop travel health shop, for mosquito nets, sun-cream, insect repellents, water purifiers and other useful travel health items
- TrExMed Travel insurance: our own recommended and specially arranged policy.
- Tailored expedition health risk assessment service for schools, research institutions, charity treks, film crews and others working in remote parts of the world
- Post-travel investigations and care, including screening tests for schistosomiasis (bilharzia) and zika infection, and post-exposure treatment (PET) for rabies.
Responsible / ethical travel medicine
Travelling is an interactive experience, which should ideally be empowering and mutually beneficial to both travellers and local host communities alike.
We at TrExMed are very much committed to promoting responsible travel and ethical travel medicine. Jim writes and teaches on the Ethics of travel and expedition medicine and is a past Chair of the Responsible Travel Group of ISTM.
