AIBU to expect medical advice from a GP surgery?

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I went to the GP surgery for travel injections. The nurse gave me details of a website to check at home and told me to come back once I decided what I needed. I had expected the GP surgery would check my records to see exactly which injections I'd had previously, so they could check what I should have now

I have had travel injections several times and the nurses have always told me what I need. Of course you have to pay for the injections but YANBU to expect advice!

I was given a booklet when I had my first travel vaccinations and the 'validation' of the vaccination was written next to it. This was from the Gp surgery . Dh non uk resident was charged .but still given the booklet. This was 7 years ago and since then I have had top ups taken said booket had it signed or filled out by the nurse .

I also think its not outrageous to expect a bit of service related to travel from the NHS. If we don't do anything about it before we go away, they'll end up with a big bill to sort the problem out when we get back if we get ill.

or maybe you could take responsibility for your own health, rather than landing your fellow taxpayers with a big bill.

If you can afford to go on an exotic holiday, you can afford to pay for travel medicine.

YANBU!

I think that's pretty poor that the practice nurse sent you away to research your own treatment/vaccinations. Surely, as the professional administering travel vaccinations, she should know what is required and be able to advise/counsel you on your options, side effects, etc.

I feel this should be chargeable service but even if it isn't, if the GP surgery has decided to provide it they have a duty of care to their patients and should be properly trained and experienced in providing health advice/treatment to travellers.

Sorry, I've forgotten which posters [practice nurses?] said that they had a high rate of patients not turning up for their travel vaccination appointments. This seems a real waste of time and resources. I wondered might it be possible for all patients booking appointments [if private] to pay upon booking? Then if they don't turn up it is their financial loss and the surgery/NHS doesn't lose out?

Yanbu. When dh and I went on holiday to several different places a few years back, they advised us what jabs we needed. They provided the usual ones like tetanus and polio for free as you're meant to have boosters for them anyway and the rest we paid for. Had to go to a different clinic for yellow fever jab.

Different countries require different vaccinations and what is required changes.

A website is the best way to keep people up to date.

YANBU - they should have been able to advise you which injections you needed. Because my brain has gone almost completely, I am unable to remember the name of the pharmaceutical handbook I used to have a copy of, that was updated most months (not the BNF, the other one) and that used to have a table of which vaccines were needed for which country. The nurse should have had access to this handbook.