Special- Travel Podcast

This is one of our special episodes of the Penny's Hill Practice Podcast and gives you some important medical advice about travelling abroad. 

 In this special podcast episode, Dr Geoff Hamp and Dr Sam McGinley give you some useful information about what you should do before you travel abroad, for business or pleasure, from a medical and health point of view. This is a long podcast as there is plenty to cover. There is advice regarding travel insurance, travel immunisations, travelling with medications, rabies and sun health.  

Don't forget to listen to our very popular podcast on Sunshine and Vitamin D for more information about sun health here. 

The websites we discuss on the podcast are here:  

• Foreign travel advice (FCO)
• Travelling with medicine containing a controlled drug (Gov.uk)
• Fit for Travel- travelling with medicines
• Fit for Travel- destination checker
• TravelHealthPro- insect and tick bite avoidance 

If you are diabetic, here are two links to really good diabetes-specific travel information: 

• Fit for Travel- diabetes 
• Fit for Travel- diabetes monitoring 

If you have any suggestions for topics you would like covered, email them to pennyshill.podcast@dorsetgp.nhs.uk and put the word "Podcast"  as your subject, or leave us a message at https://anchor.fm/pennyshillpractice/message  

Stay safe, stay well and look after each other and enjoy your time abroad! 

Runtime 19 minutes 55 seconds

Released 17 August 2020