Risk assessment / Risk management checklist
This example form shows the type of detail required to inform risk assessment
Risk assessment is fundamental to the pre-travel health consultation and is underpinned by comprehensive information gathering about the traveller and their planned travel. Risk assessment enables the health professional and traveller to decide on meaningful, appropriate advice and interventions which are tailored to the needs of the individual (which is known as risk management). Risk assessment and risk management are considered to be the cornerstone to best practice in the travel health consultation [1-4].
There are a number of ways to gather information about a traveller and their travel plans. Some clinics use a form for travellers to complete prior to the consultation, this detail is carefully scrutinised by the health professional at the appointment. This example form shows the type of detail required to inform risk assessment. This form can be downloaded and printed. However, clinics may wish to use this as an example to create their own form which is adapted to their own practice. Local guidance for record keeping should be followed.
Yellow fever risk assessment: it is required that health professionals undertaking risk assessment for yellow fever vaccination use a yellow fever specific checklist in addition to that used in the general travel health risk assessment. A new electronic format revised edition is now available below.
Travel risk assessment form
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Resources
- Yellow fever pre-vaccination checklist
- NaTHNaC e-learning: Risk assessment in the travel health consultation- an introduction
- FCDO: Helping British people overseas: travelling and living abroad
- Royal College of Nursing. Travel Health Nursing: career and competence development; 2018.
- Chiodini JH, Anderson E, Driver C et al. Recommendations for the practice of travel medicine. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 2012; 10:109-128
- World Health Organization, International Travel and Health. Geneva.
- Hill DR, Ericsson CD, Pearson RD et al. The practice of travel medicine: guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Cli Infect Dis 2006 Dec 15; 43(12):1499-539
First Published : 05 Jan 2021
Last Updated :  05 Nov 2021
Educational events
A list of courses, conferences and study days of relevance to UK health professionals working, or wishing to work, in the field of travel medicine Read moreYellow fever pre-vaccination checklist
A checklist for travellers to be used during the travel health consultation to assist yellow fever vaccine risk assessment Read moreCOVID-19: Travel risk assessment
Factors health professionals should consider when advising those who are planning international travel during the COVID-19 pandemic Read moreCOVID-19: Testing and demonstrating status for international travel
Information on testing, including testing following recent COVID-19 infection and demonstrating COVID-19 status Read moreTravelHealthPro EBook