Sainsbury's launches travel clinics in 21 of its supermarkets
Sainsbury's launches travel clinics in 21 of its supermarkets
Sainsbury's is setting up travel clinics in more than 20 of its stores. The supermarket travel clinics will allow shoppers to consult nurses and have injections on the spot.
Sainsbury's is launching travel clinics in 21 of its supermarkets, and hopes to undercut traditional travel clinics by around a third, reports The Observer. As well as offering free consultations with nurses, people travelling to
holiday homes in countries where immunisation is needed will be able to benefit from injections and health products at "significantly cheaper" prices than in specialist clinics.
"We will provide an efficient, good value one-stop-shop for people's travel health needs - from a first aid kit to immunisation," said David Gilder from Sainsbury's. The travel clinics are being trialed in Sainsbury's supermarkets within the M25, but if the pilot clinics are successful the scheme will be launched nationwide.
The paper's research revealed that a three-injection course of Hepatitis A and B immunisations costs £150 at Sainsbury's, compared to a typical price of £195 at specialist clinics. Anti-malaria tablets and a combined diphtheria, tetanus and polio injection are also cheaper in the supermarket travel clinic.
A specialist in travel medicine stressed that it is important that travellers get health advice, support and follow-up advice, not just cheap vaccines.
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28 July 2008
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