BBO Training

Course Overview

This half-day Travel Vaccination Update provides a practical review of travel health risk assessment and vaccination planning for healthcare professionals involved in travel health consultations.

The session is suitable as a standalone course or as an optional add-on to immunisation update training. It focuses on strengthening risk assessment skills, reviewing travel vaccine schedules, and supporting clinicians in managing more complex travel scenarios within Primary Care.

Participants will revisit the principles of travel health consultations, including destination risk assessment, vaccine decision-making, malaria prevention and health promotion advice for non-vaccine preventable diseases.

The course emphasises safe practice, evidence-based guidance and collaborative discussion of real-world travel health cases.

Who Should Attend

This course is suitable for healthcare professionals who:

• Provide travel vaccination services
• Support travel health consultations in Primary Care
• Have previously undertaken immunisation training

Typically attended by:

• Practice Nurses
• Nurse Associates
• Pharmacists delivering travel vaccinations
• Clinicians involved in travel health advice

What This Course Covers

Travel Health Risk Assessment

• Assessing the traveller
• Assessing destination risk
• Vaccine decision-making frameworks

Complex Traveller Considerations

• Patients with chronic health conditions
• Pregnancy considerations
• Immunocompromised travellers

Travel Vaccine Schedules

• NHS travel vaccines
• Private travel vaccine schedules
• Vaccine selection based on destination risk

Health Promotion for Travellers

• Non-vaccine preventable diseases
• Food and water safety
• Insect bite prevention

Malaria Prevention

• Malaria transmission and risk assessment
• Prophylaxis selection
• Patient education and prevention strategies

Case-Based Learning

• Complex travel scenarios
• Shared learning discussion
• Practical consultation examples

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Conduct structured travel health risk assessments
• Identify appropriate travel vaccines based on destination risk
• Distinguish between NHS and private travel vaccine schedules
• Provide health promotion advice for non-vaccine preventable diseases
• Assess malaria risk and advise on prophylaxis options
• Apply learning to complex travel health scenarios

Course Format

Duration: Half-day

Delivery: Virtual or face-to-face

Format includes:

• Structured teaching
• Case-based discussion
• Interactive group learning
• Question and answer session

Certification

Certificate of attendance provided for CPD and revalidation purposes.