Exeter Travel Clinic

The Exeter Travel Clinic provides specialist & professional advice for all of your travel or expeditions needs. We also offer childhood & shingles vaccines.

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@GwynTopham interesting article on PCR testing. It would appear @williewalsh50 and the industry don’t understand the huge costs involved in obtaining UKAS accreditation. If the government insists on professional standards, the public will have to pay professional prices.

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@charleshymas Are you aware of the Government legislation requiring all PCR providers to be accredited by UKAS at a cost of thousands, even if regulated healthcare professionals? This is one reason why independent clinics charge what they do. #fullpicture

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@JuliaHB1 @sajidjavid Perhaps if the government hadn’t made independent medical professionals jump £8k+ regulatory UKAS hurdles, costs would be lower! #halfastory

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@sajidjavid If the Government hadn’t made independent medical professionals jump unnecessary £8k+ regulatory PCR hoops, costs would be lower!

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@GeorgeLustyUK @CMAgovUK A reason PCR test prices are so high is due to the cost of enforced accreditation (£8k+) for independent clinics to provide this service. Happy to chat further https://t.co/vK2mmp3Jpf

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@benrileysmith @charleshymas Have just penned a Letter to the Editor re your article on PCR costs. It may be of interest to you. Tory ministers must share the blame!

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@BBCPM One reason PCR tests are so high is because of unnecessary bureaucracy introduced by Lord Bethell. This has cost independent travel clinics thousands of pounds to provide this service.

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@dominicoc Hi Dom. Worldpay/FiS Global have excluded taking card payments for clinical covid tests from their T&Cs. Could have significant impact on private clinics and for the holiday industry.

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@CommonsHealth @CommonsSTC Ask DC why independent CQC regulated clinics were not made exempt from UKAS accreditation for testing, with a consequent negative impact on testing capacity and increase in PCR testing costs...

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@thejonnyreilly - just emailed re PCR test costs. Please read as very important.

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@grantshapps @bbchealth @BBC_Travel @JimBethell Covid testing wouldn't be expensive if highly regulated medical professionals didn't have to spend £7k+ becoming more regulated to undertake a process unregulated 14-year-old school children are doing in their own homes.

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@Union1707 @BBCr4today Really good question. Whose responsibility is it to halt Covid spread... and should those involved in tourism (your relatives) dictate the risk level to the citizens not involved in tourism..? No easy answer I agree, but decisions based purely on a need for tourism will end badly

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@Union1707 @BBCr4today I agree it’s not about vaccinated Brits spreading/catching Covid. It’s about unvaccinated locals having to reduce their lockdown measures and increase local spread amongst themselves just to provide for vaccinated British tourists.

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@Union1707 @BBCr4today It’s really difficult, but from an international health perspective, we can’t risk increasing cases in struggling countries, plus risk variant transmission, just because a few British people can’t cope without sun. If locals were vaccinated as well - potentially different story

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@BBCr4today We may be vaccinated and ‘safe’, but the host population are not. Yet some feel it acceptable to break their lockdown so we can obtain some sun. Imagine if plane loads of tourists came here at the height of our pandemic. Remember, it’s a global pandemic and not all about us...

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@Union1707 @BBCr4today It’s not just at about us. The EU pandemic is getting worse and therefore closing down. Tourism requires a local infrastructure. We would put unnecessary pressure on locals during the height of their struggles....just because we feel it’s a right to have some sun.

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@FionaAntcliff @BBCr4today This is not just about our safety, but also that of the host country’s. The EU population is struggling to cope. The last thing they need is plane loads of tourists. Imagine if the UK was swamped with tourists at the height of our pandemic.

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@BBCr4today It may be safe for vaccinated people to travel to #Greece, but tourism requires support of the local population who are in lockdown. Imagine the pressure felt if waves of vaccinated tourists came here during our lockdown. It’s not just about our needs. #globalpandemic

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@JimBethell Unfortunately poorly considered legislation. UKAS today confirmed it will cost CQC regulated providers £8400, and add £3600/year to already highly regulated independent clinic overheads. Duplicating paperwork for hard working medical professionals #medicalbureaucracy @bbchealth