Hepatitis B vaccination
Passed through blood and bodily fluids, hepatitis B matters for anyone who needs medical or dental care abroad, or who works in a healthcare setting.
- Price
- From £45 per dose
- Course
- 2 steps
- Protection
- Long term, often lifelong, after a completed course
About Hepatitis B
Unsterile needles, tattoos, piercings, dental work and road traffic accidents are the routine travel routes of infection, rather than anything exotic.
Chronic infection can lead to liver damage years later, which is why the vaccine is offered so widely to long-stay travellers and expatriates.
A rapid schedule completes in three weeks, and a super-accelerated version can be used when you are leaving in days.
Price
From £45 per dose
Three-dose course, accelerated schedules available.
Protection lasts
Long term, often lifelong, after a completed course
Book nowNormal and accelerated schedules
- Standard
Doses at 0, 1 and 6 months.
- Accelerated
Doses at 0, 7 and 21 days, with a booster at 12 months.
Who needs it
- Long-stay travellers, expatriates and volunteers
- Healthcare, laboratory and emergency workers
- Anyone likely to seek medical, dental or cosmetic treatment abroad
- Adventure travellers with a higher chance of injury
- A combined hepatitis A and B vaccine covers both in a single course.
- Accelerated schedules need a booster at a year to make protection last.
- Immunity can be confirmed with a blood test if you are unsure of past doses.
Hepatitis B questions
No. People who completed a full course are protected long term.
Yes, a combined vaccine is available and often the better value option.
Need to be seen today?
Book online in about a minute and you can often be seen the same day. Prefer to talk it through? Call us or pop in, Monday to Saturday.