On return, a comprehensive physical examination is conducted, either at our clinic or on client's premises.
This includes comprehensive tests for possible diseases and ailments, many of which - particularly parasitic diseases such as malaria, bilharzia or giardia, which may have few symptoms in their early stages - can be easily misdiagnosed or entirely missed by those unfamiliar with them.
Prompt diagnosis can lead to rapid and painless treatment of problems which, if left, may develop into serious illnesses, debilitating and difficult to treat, with the road to recovery unnecessarily long and uncomfortable.
We screen for:
If specialist treatment is required, we will refer the client to the appropriate authority. This package will can be tailor made for the individual company as all companies have different requirements regarding travel.
On return, a comprehensive physical examination is conducted, either at our clinic or on client's premises.
Dr Charlie Easmon and his team offer the above services. Typically your appointment would be 30 minutes. The cost for the consultation is discounted at £100 per half hour.
We will ask you to fill in a form before your consultation about you travels, previous vaccinations, previous health problems and current health concerns.
We can email this form for you to fill it in before your appointment or you can download it from the website.
We will ask you the relevant questions about your health.
We will examine your general appearance, skin, heart, lungs, abdomen and nervous system. We check your baseline height and weight. We may need to check your temperature. We may ask you to do a urine sample. We will take baseline bloods of full blood count, white cells, kidney function and liver function. Baseline blood costs are £40
We may need to take disease specific blood tests i.e. a malaria blood film costs £55. A Bilharzia blood tests costs £50.
If you have diarrhoea we will give you some pots to do stool samples in - this will be over the course of 3 days. The stools are analysed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This test costs £75.
If necessary we will refer you on to an appropriate specialist or the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
After we have seen you, we will send you a report with a copy of all your results.
*Travellers who have returned from the tropics and are unwell, with fever or bloody diarrhoea, can attend the walk-in emergency clinic at the Hospital without an appointment or referral. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases emergency clinic is open between 9 am and 4.00 pm Monday to Friday. If you need to attend the HTD emergency clinic out of working hours you should go to the Accident & Emergency Department at University College Hospital, on the corner of Gower street and Grafton Way.
Please click here for the Returned Traveller History Sheet (RTHS)
