Travel Clinic in Wavertree

Travel clinic in Wavertree

Wavertree sends us two very different kinds of traveller. Every summer the student houses between Picton Clock and Wavertree High Street empty out as housemates book group trips through Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia — usually at a few weeks' notice, with a group chat full of contradictory vaccine advice. And the area's longer-established families travel too, often long-haul to visit relatives, which brings its own checklist. Either way, the fix is the same: one short consultation at the other end of Picton Road, built around your actual itinerary rather than what someone's mate posted in the chat.

Travel vaccines in Liverpool: what you need to know

Liverpool's travel-health needs run wider than a beach-holiday checklist: two universities send students on electives and gap years, families across the city fly out for long visits to relatives, pilgrims prepare for Hajj and Umrah, and cruise and airport departures leave from the city itself. The starting point is always the itinerary. At our Liverpool travel clinic every consultation works from NaTHNaC country guidance and Fit for Travel, led by a pharmacist Independent Prescriber.

Common destinations

For the Southeast Asia group trips Wavertree is famous for, hepatitis A and typhoid are the usual core, with rabies worth serious thought for anyone going longer than a fortnight or heading rural. Mosquito-borne illness is the other conversation — we stock both the chikungunya vaccine and the dengue vaccine, and we'll tell you honestly whether your trip justifies them. Pilgrims need meningitis ACWY for a Saudi visa (see NaTHNaC's Hajj and Umrah factsheet) — administered and certificated in one visit. For Africa and the Caribbean we build a malaria plan, prescribing and dispensing tablets such as Maloff Protect on the day, and we advise on yellow fever entry requirements for your route as part of the consultation. North Africa city breaks are covered too — see our Morocco travel health guide.

NHS or private?

With enough lead time your GP can give a free tetanus–diphtheria–polio booster and, for some destinations, hepatitis A and typhoid — the NHS travel vaccinations page explains which. Rabies, Hajj meningitis ACWY, Japanese encephalitis and hepatitis B for travel are private everywhere. Clinically we work to the UKHSA Green Book; see our booking page for current rates.

Why Wavertree travellers book with us

Because group trips need group logistics. A shared student house can book together and be seen together — each person gets their own risk assessment, but the whole household is done in one trip up Picton Road. Same-day appointments with 2 hours' notice rescue the housemate who left it late, the consultation is free when you have your vaccines, and we're open until 6pm weekdays plus Saturday mornings — rated 4.9 by 200+ Google reviewers.

Getting to us from Wavertree

It's one straight road: from Picton Clock, follow Picton Road onto Wavertree Road and you'll reach the Georgian Quarter in about 8 minutes by car, with buses running the whole Picton Road corridor. We're at 37 Myrtle Street, L7 7AJ, with on-street parking nearby. Neighbouring pages: travel clinic Edge Hill and travel clinic Childwall. Call 0151 542 5420.