Why visit a specialist Travel Health Clinic?

Travel medicine, as a field, encompasses a large number of disciples including public and occupational health, epidemiology, infectious disease and tropical disease among others. As an individual, and growing, speciality standards of practice have been established to identify the scope of competencies expected from travel health medicine practitioners, to guide their professional training and development, while ensuring an acceptable level of patient care is reached.

Managing Director Mary Kedward (RN) has a Certificate in Travel Health from the International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM) and is also a member of the British Travel Health Association (BTHA).  She believes passionately about training and education for other nurses and frequently runs educational seminars for local Practice Nurses.  Mary also has her PADI qualifications and loves to sail.

Born in Ghana, of missionary parents, her enthusiasm for travel has not abated.

Medical Director Jane Wilson-Howarth became a partner in General Practice in Cambridge in 2004.Janeboth teaches and writes extensively on travel health; she has taught on courses run by the Royal Geographical Society, VSO, the Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief, Royal College of Nursing, continues to lectureregularly on Travel Health at the London School of Hygiene & Medicine, for Engineers without Borders, and also is a regular author for the Independent on Saturdays, on travel issues and has written several books on Travel Health.

We also have a dedicated team of nurses with extensive knowledge in the field of Travel Medicine including Karen Rudd, Clare Back, Penny Robinson, Sam Reeves, Katy Cowling, Marie Rouse, and Kym Birch.