National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) 

NaTHNaC has been created to promote clinical standards in travel medicine with the goal of 'protecting the health of British travellers'. We do this by improving the quality of travel health advice available to GP practices and other healthcare providers. NaTHNaC has been funded by the Department of Health [link] in England, and is in partnership with the network founders:

• Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
• Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections (CfI).

NaTHNaC's goals

• To develop consistent and authoritative national guidance on general health matters for health professionals advising the public travelling abroad, and to disseminate this information widely
• To provide guidance on special situations relating to the health of travellers
• To carry out surveillance of infectious and non-infectious hazards abroad, producing accessible regular outputs of such surveillance
• To administer the yellow fever vaccination centres
• To collaborate with health professionals in travel medicine
• To engage the travel industry, insurance industry, and relevant government bodies, to assist in sentinel surveillance and to engage in constructive dialogue towards a unified prevention approach
• To facilitate, in collaboration with other training providers, the training of health care and other personnel in the provision of best-quality travel health advice, based on such evidence as is available
• To define short-term and long-term research priorities relating to travel medicine

NaTHNaC provides

Guidance and education:

• Telephone advice to travel health professionals
  (currently 9am - 12 noon, 2pm - 4.30pm Mon-Fri) 0845 602 6712
• Evidence-based documents on travel health matters
• Recommendations to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the use of vaccines in travellers
• NaTHNaC travel health training days
• Surveillance
• Outputs of surveillance information

Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre Administration: 

• Information and requirements about becoming a yellow fever vaccination designated centre
• Standards and training in the running of a designated centre
• Training days for newly designated yellow fever vaccination centres