Travel Health
A pre-travel visit built around your itinerary: the vaccines you need, prescriptions for malaria prevention and travellers’ diarrhea, and practical advice for staying well away from home.
At a glance
- Visit fee
- $95
- Referral
- Not needed
- Prescriptions
- To any pharmacy
- Prescriber
- Registered Nurse, CNO-authorized
- Where
- Your home, Brooklin & Durham
Is this for you?
Good reasons to book.
- You’re heading somewhere that calls for vaccines or malaria prevention.
- You’re travelling with children or older family members and want one plan for everyone.
- You’re leaving soon and need an appointment this week, not next month.
- You’ve been told you need “travel shots” and aren’t sure which ones.
What to expect
Your visit, step by step.
Send your itinerary
Countries, regions, dates and the kind of trip — beach resort, backpacking, visiting family — shape what you need. Book four to six weeks ahead when you can.
Your travel consult
We go through recommended and required vaccines, malaria risk by region, and your existing immunizations, and agree a plan that fits your timeline and budget.
Vaccines and prescriptions
Prescriptions for your vaccines and medication go to your pharmacy. Once you’ve picked up the vaccines, we give them at a short second visit and write up your record for your travel documents.
Before you fly
A clear summary of what to take, when to start it, and what to do if you get sick while you’re away.
Scope
What we can do here — and where we draw the line.
Everything in the first column is within what an Ontario RN prescriber may do. The second column is where we refer you on, without delay.
RN prescribing is regulated by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Any nurse’s prescribing authorization can be checked on the CNO’s public register, Find a Nurse.
Within our scope
- Review your destinations, dates, activities and health history against current travel-health recommendations.
- Prescribe and give travel vaccines such as hepatitis A and B, typhoid, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis boosters and others your trip calls for.
- Prescribe medication to prevent malaria where your itinerary warrants it, from the drugs Ontario’s RN prescribing list allows (doxycycline, mefloquine and chloroquine-family drugs).
- Prescribe medication to prevent or treat travellers’ diarrhea, with instructions on when to use it.
- Advise on food and water safety, insect protection, altitude, and what to pack in a travel health kit.
Outside our scope
- Yellow fever vaccine can only be given at a designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre. If your trip needs it, we’ll tell you early and point you to the nearest centre.
- Medication for altitude sickness and other prescriptions outside the RN prescribing list are not something we can provide; we’ll refer you where needed.
Emergencies — trouble breathing, chest pain, heavy bleeding, a severe allergic reaction — need 911 or the nearest emergency department, not an appointment.
Fees
What this costs.
RN prescriber visits are not OHIP-insured. The prescription itself is filled at your pharmacy and covered by your drug plan as usual.
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Travel health consult $95
Up to 45 minutes. Itinerary review, vaccine plan and prescriptions. Vaccines are paid for at your pharmacy; giving them is a vaccine visit.
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Each additional family member $45
Travelling together, seen in the same appointment.
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Vaccine visit (vaccine from your pharmacy) $25
We give a vaccine you’ve filled at your pharmacy on our prescription: screening, the injection, observation and your record. You pay the pharmacy for the vaccine; we don’t sell it.
Ready to book?
- Send a request and we confirm a time within one business day.
- We come to you: home visits across Brooklin, Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax and Pickering, travel included.
- Questions first? hello@choicewellness.ca
How far ahead should I book?
Four to six weeks before departure is ideal, because some vaccines need more than one dose or take time to protect you. Leaving sooner? Come anyway — there is almost always something worthwhile we can do.
Are travel vaccines covered?
Most travel vaccines are not publicly funded in Ontario. You pay for them at your pharmacy when you fill our prescription — we don’t sell vaccines — and many drug and extended health plans cover part or all of the cost there. Our visit fees are separate, with itemized receipts.
Can you give yellow fever vaccine?
No. In Canada it is only given at designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres. We’ll identify whether you need it and help you find a centre nearby.
Do you treat illness after I get back?
Post-travel illness such as fever after a malaria-risk trip needs urgent medical assessment that includes testing, which is outside RN prescribing. Go to urgent care or an emergency department and tell them where you travelled.
Ready when you are
Request a home visit for travel health
Tell us what you need and we’ll reply within one business day with a time — then we come to you. No referral, no waiting room.