Appendix 2: Useful addresses and telephone numbers
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control
Name__________________________________________________________________
Tel No. _________________________________________________________________
(please insert details of your local CCDC)
Telephone advice lines for health professionals
(Calls from the public cannot be answered by these services - please do not give these numbers out to patients)
Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS)
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC)
Travel Medicine Unit
61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ
Tel: 020 8200 6868 Service open weekdays 10am-12 midday
PHLS Malaria Reference Laboratory
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
Tel: 020 7636 3924 Service open 9am-4.30pm
Travel Medicine Division of Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH)
Clifton House, Clifton Place
Glasgow G3 7LN
For professional users of Travax only:
Tel: 0141 300 1130 Service open weekdays 2-4pm
Hospital for Tropical Diseases Travel Clinic
Mortimer Market Centre, Capper Street
off Tottenham Court Road
London WC1E 6AU
Tel: 020 7387 9600
Department of Infection & Tropical Medicine
Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow HA1 3UJ
Tel: 020 8869 2831
Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Birmingham B9 5ST
Tel: 0121 766 6611 ext 4403/4382/4535
John Warin Ward
The Churchill Hospital
Headington
Oxford OX3 7LJ
Tel: 01865 225214
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place
Liverpool L3 5QA
Tel: 0151 708 9393
Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
North Manchester General Hospital
Delaunays Road
Manchester M8 5RB
Tel: 0161 720 2677
Data bases/'On Line' travel advice
Travax - Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health website for health care professionals (continually updated - registration is on-line at www.axl.co.uk/scieh)
Fit for travel - NHS website for the public consistent with Travax at www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk
TRAVELLER: database with monthly updates
Enquiries to Travellers Direct Ltd, Tel 0114 282 3488
Advice paylines available to the public
(Limited to recorded messages)
| Malaria Reference Laboratory | Tel: 0891 600350 |
| Hospital for Tropical Diseases | Tel: 09061 337733 |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Tel: 0891 172111 |
| MASTA (Medical Advisory Service | Tel: 0891 224100 |
| for Travellers Abroad) |
Other useful telephone numbers
| British Diabetic Association | Tel: 020 7323 1531 |
| Department of Health (for publications) | Tel: 0800 555777 |
| Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Tel: 020 7270 4129 |
| Medic - Alert Foundation | Tel: 020 7833 3034 |
| National AIDS Helpline | Tel: 0800 567123 |
Vaccine manufacturers and distributors
Aventis Pasteur MSD
| northern areas of the country | Tel: 0321 1822 2463 |
| southern areas of the country | Tel: 0321 2822 2463 |
| Baxter Hyland Immuno | Tel: 01635 206265 |
| Celltech Medeva | Tel: 01372 364000 |
| Farillon | Tel: 01708 379000 |
| MASTA | Tel: 0113 2387500 |
GlaxoSmithKline
| enquiries | Tel: 0808 100 2228 |
| orders | Tel: 0808 100 9997 |
Other useful web site addresses
www.phls.co.uk
Web site of the Public Health Laboratory Service. Has access to CDR reports and various facts and figures.
www.fco.gov.uk/
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
www.who.int/index.html
World Health Organization
www.who.int/wer/
Weekly Epidemiology Record (WER) produced by WHO.
www.who.int/emc/outbreakfinews/index.html
Web site of Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC) - outbreak news, disease information and surveillance.
www.cdc.gov
Web site of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA), which includes access to MMWR and various data and statistics.
www.istm.org
Web site of the International Society of Travel Medicine, which includes access to Journal of Travel Medicine.