Travel services

Travel consultations at CHROMIS

Although travel medicine is a specialised area of medicine you don’t need a referral from your GP. Call us now to book a travel consultation at CHROMIS. We’re conveniently located in Newcastle (in the Domayne shopping precinct at Kotara) and Maitland (directly opposite the Maitland Public Hospital).

Before a consultaion with our travel doctor you will be asked to complete our travel health questionnaire which provides us with essential information including:

This information ensures that the advice you are given is relevant to you and your trip.

During the consultation the doctor may recommend that you have one or more vaccinations but don’t worry, you won’t need to rush down to the chemist with a script.

Vaccinations & products at CHROMIS

CHROMIS has a full range of vaccinations on site including Yellow Fever (we are an accredited Yellow Fever vaccination centre). A full range of appropriate travel medication and travel products will be discussed with you. Please visit our Products page to learn more.

Costs & rebates

The cost of your consultation will depend on the length of your consultation and does not include the cost of vaccines and health products. Unless you are travelling for work, where your employer is paying for the travel service, the actual consultation fee may attract a Medicare rebate. You need to check with your private health insurer about refunds for the cost of vaccinations and medications. We request payment on the day of consultation; we accept cash, EFTPOS and credit cards.

Peace of mind for a small price

Still not convinced you need a travel medicine consultation and wary of travel insurance? – read the following true story

A month into his holiday, a traveller who had no travel insurance and had not bothered with vaccination contracted severe meningitis. He spent the next three months in an intensive care unit with multi-organ failure in a city hospital of an under-developed nation. His costs for care averaged around $1,000 per day. Unfortunately, the costs did not reflect the health standards to which Australians are used to and, indeed, fell well below that. Eventually, he became well enough for his family to repatriate him at the cost of $60,000. The direct financial cost to the family was $150,000 but the indirect burden of care and loss of income for key family members was far greater.

Moral of this true story: Don’t travel without appropriate vaccination as well as travel-health insurance. If a condition causes an insurer to refuse you travel insurance, keep shopping around, don’t take a first or second “no” as the end of the story. It’s worth it.