This page contains the following information on our training seminars:

• Training dates and requirements
• Background
• Aim of training seminars
• How to register
• Cost
• Accreditation
• Cancellation Policy

Newly designated centres

At least one member of clinical staff is required to attend training prior to receiving designation status.  Please ensure you check training dates and locations before submitting your designation application form.

• Training dates for newly designated centres

Existing YFVCs

As an existing YFVC, one clinical member of staff is required to attend an update training seminar once every two years. This does not need to be the same healthcare professional who previously attended.

Existing YFVCs may choose to send new clinical staff on a full day seminar, although availability is limited.

• To view training dates for half day update seminars, please log into the YFVC area using the login on the right hand side of the YFVC portal page

NaTHNaC requires standards of practice within designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres (YFVCs) in line with the YFVC Code of Practice. See the Information Pack for further details.

As part of designation requirements, a doctor, nurse or pharmacist from each YFVC must attend a full day NaTHNaC sponsored yellow fever training seminar upon application to become a new YFVC. One clinical member of staff must attend an update training seminar once every two years, but this does not need to be the health care professional who previously attended.

The aim of the training seminars is to provide health care professionals working in designated centres with theoretical knowledge and understanding of yellow fever disease and vaccination in order to:

• Accurately advise travellers about yellow fever disease risk and prevention
• Administer vaccine in a safe manner
• Comply with the requirements of the International Health Regulations (2005) as stipulated by the World Health Organization

The seminar will provide information and promote discussion on topics including:

• Global epidemiology and transmission of yellow fever
• International Health Regulations (2005), World Health Organization
• Areas with risk of yellow fever transmission
• Yellow fever vaccine
• Risk assessment for travel

The seminars are informal and are interactive.

• Places on each training seminar are allocated on a first come, first served basis. Places cannot be confirmed until payment is received.

• Completed registration forms should be returned to:

Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre Administration

(Training)
National Travel Health Network and Centre
UCLH NHS Foundation Trust

5th Floor West

250 Euston Road

London NW1 2PG

Any queries regarding the training seminars should be forwarded to the above address or sent to  yellowfever@uclh.org

New Centres (full day)

The cost to attend a Training Seminar for new centres is £115.

Update Seminars (half day)

The cost to attend an Update Seminar for existing centres is £80.

This cost covers:

• Administrative costs involved in running the seminars
• Handouts and teaching materials
• Provision of refreshments as appropriate (lunch is provided on full day courses only)

This fee is non-refundable.

Cheques should be made payable to UCLH NHS Foundation Trust

The full day seminars for new YFVCs are accredited by the Royal College of Nursing Accreditation Unit. The half day update seminars are not currently accredited.

In completing the training application form, delegates accept that whilst NaTHNaC will use its best endeavours to ensure that training takes place at the date and time indicated there may be occasions when circumstances outwith NaTHNaC's control mean that a particular training session has to be cancelled.

Delegates further accept that in the event of cancellation of a training session NaTHNaC will be unable to refund any costs associated with an individual delegate's attendance at the cancelled session, to include both the costs of the session itself and any travel and other expenses whatsoever associated therewith.

Should a training session be cancelled then delegates are advised to contact NaTHNaC who will use its best endeavours to ensure that a delegate is booked into a future training session at no extra charge. Delegates should however note that they will be responsible for any travel and other expenses associated with their attendance at a future session.

Delegates who cancel a booking will not be eligible for a refund. The training fee may be applied to a different delegate from the same YFVC.