RCN and NaTHNaC 9th Joint Travel Health Conference 2026
Featuring the latest updates and future trends in travel health
26 Sep 2026, 09:00 - 15:30
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Join us for this annual one-day conference featuring the latest updates and future trends in the fields of travel medicine and infectious diseases.
Hear from leading experts on a range of topics including:
• Challenging scenarios in practice, including yellow fever
• Travelling and pregnancy
• Medical tourism
• Updates on Dengue and Chikungunya
• ‘Hot off the press’ information, reports and resources
Have your questions answered by experts and gain access to current evidence-based research and education to stay up to date and re-establish confidence and competence in the travel health consultation.
The event will be hosted on Zoom Events, enabling a highly interactive and engaging experience for delegates.
Book with two or more colleagues to receive a 10% discount.
Who should attend?
This event is aimed at all healthcare practitioners involved in delivering travel health services to travellers from the UK, including nurses, pharmacists and other allied health care professionals.
Benefits of attending:
• Accrue up to 6.5 hours of CPD to count towards your revalidation
• Hear from eminent keynote speakers on contemporary issues in travel health
• Consider and highlight best practice at national and local level
• Network with travel health nursing professionals from across the UK
Need a helping hand with securing time off or funding to attend? Please download these helpful hints and tips.
What previous attendees have said about the Travel Health Conference:
‘I find this event interesting, educational and informative. All the speakers were excellent.’
‘Having not done a travel consultation for a while, it has given me more confidence to be able to add the little tit bits into a consultation.’
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Programme topics will include:
• Challenging scenarios in practice, including yellow fever
• Travelling and pregnancy
• Medical tourism
• Updates on Dengue and Chikungunya
• ‘Hot off the press’ information, reports and resources
Please note the programme details and timings are subject to change.
Dr Oliver Koch DPhil FRCP FFTM
Dr Oliver Koch DPhil FRCP FFTM is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. His clinical interests include tropical medicine, travel medicine, tuberculosis, and HIV. He holds the Diploma in Travel Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, where he serves on the Faculty of Travel Medicine Executive Board. He is Clinical Lead for the NHS Lothian Travel Clinics and a member of the UKHSA Malaria Expert Advisory Group. He is also Principal Investigator on several clinical trials and surveillance studies.
Kath Lynch
Kath has worked in Tropical Diseases and Travel Medicine since 1997 and has been a NaTHNaC yellow fever associate trainer since 2006. She became a Member of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (RCPS Glasgow) after completing her MSc in International Travel and Health in 2009 and gained a diploma in adult education in 2015.
She has provided travel health services for organisations including the Natural History Museum, VSO, BBC, London Zoo, MASTA, and major London hospitals, and previously worked as a practice nurse.
Now Lead Nurse at Trailfinders Travel Clinic, she specialises in complex traveller consultations and shared decision making around yellow fever vaccination.
Clare Henderson
Clare Henderson is an experienced nurse and travel medicine specialist with more than 25 years’ experience in the field. She runs TREC Travel Health Training and has previously led a private travel clinic.
She holds the Diploma in Travel Medicine and became a member of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow after passing the first entrance exam in 2012. Clare is now an examiner for the Faculty of Travel Medicine.
She currently works as a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Vaccination and Immunisation Division at Public Health Scotland, following her previous role as a senior nurse within the TRAVAX team.
Victoria Browne
Victoria Browne has specialised in travel medicine since 2007 and has extensive experience across both NHS and private healthcare settings in the UK and the Middle East. She holds a Diploma in Travel Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) and has also completed the Travel Medicine Short Course at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Victoria is currently the Senior Clinical Lead Nurse and Travel Lead at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, where she co-leads the delivery and ongoing development of specialist travel health services. The hospital provides both a private travel medicine service and a NHS Complex Travel Medicine Service.
Kendal Andreason
Kendal Andreason is Professional Lead for Acute and Emergency Care and Defence Nursing at the Royal College of Nursing. Over a career spanning military service, expedition medicine and healthcare leadership, she has worked in extreme environments across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. From operational deployments in Afghanistan to remote expeditions in Namibia and Oman, she has witnessed first-hand the effects of heat on health, performance and decision-making. Kendal combines stories from the field with evidence-based practice to explore how travellers, clinicians and organisations can prepare for, prevent and respond to heat-related illness.
Robert Condie
Rob Condie - Head of Medical Tourism policy at the Department of Health and Social Care since 2024, having previously occupied a wide range of policy and operational roles including Covid Testing, the Managed Quarantine Service and Community Health Services. Rob spent his early career in the wine trade before joining the Civil Service via the Fast Stream graduate scheme, and lives in Stockport with his wife and two young children.
Dr Dipti Patel MBBS FRCP FFOM FFTM RCPS (Glasg) LLM OBE
Dr Dipti Patel is a consultant in occupational medicine and travel medicine. She is the Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), established in 2002 by the UK Department of Health with the broad remit of protecting the health of British travellers. She is also the Chief Medical Officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), where she leads a multidisciplinary team supporting over 10,000 government staff and their families based in missions across 178 countries and territories, as well as 14,000 business travellers. Additionally, she is an honorary lecturer in Population Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at Manchester University.
Dipti is a member of the UK Malaria Expert Advisory Group, the Travel Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and the WHO International Travel and Health Guideline Development Group. She also participated in the UK Commission on Human Medicine’s Expert Working Group on yellow fever vaccine, which was convened following two fatal adverse reactions to the vaccine in the UK in 2018 and 2019.
Dipti is Editor in Chief for Occupational Medicine, an associate editor for Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases and New Microbes and New Infections. She is also a co-editor of the ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Her previous roles include serving as a Non-Executive Director at the Health Protection Agency, the Director of Clinical Services at the Medical Advisory Service for Travellers Abroad, and Consultant in Occupational Medicine at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dipti has a special interest in complex travellers, travel health education, medico-legal issues, and occupational travellers.
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Inc VAT |
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RCN Member |
£ 80.00 |
£ 16.00 |
£ 96.00 |
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Non-Member |
£ 120.00 |
£ 24.00 |
£ 144.00 |
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RCN Member: pre-reg student/HCA/ retired member |
£ 48.00 |
£ 9.60 |
£ 57.60 |
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RCN representatives (25% discount) |
£ 60.00 |
£ 12.00 |
£ 72.00 |
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10% discount – group discount when three or more delegates book together.
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