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 an independent, specialist travel clinic service run by two partners, Dr Jim Bond (Consultant in Travel & Expedition 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.
Jim and Nicky have both completed the Glasgow Diploma of Travel Medicine in the early 2000s. 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, where he taught and mentored students for many years.
Jim also holds the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM)'s Certificate in Travel Health Knowledge and in 2019 was awarded an honorary lifetime Fellowship of ISTM for 'exceptional leadership and an outstanding contribution to the field of travel medicine and the society itself'.
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's Edinburgh Travel Clinic is centrally located and particularly handy for the South and SW of the capital, 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 actual travel health risks by experienced, hands-on Travel Medicine experts: We do not blindly follow the (somewhat illogical) generic vaccine listings on TravelHealthPro.
- One-stop travel health shop, for insect repellents, sun-cream, water purifiers, mosquito nets, tick removers and other useful travel health items
- TrExMed Travel insurance: our own recommended single trip and annual multi-trip policies.
- Tailored expedition health risk assessment service for school groups, 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 intra-dermal 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.
