School of tropical medicine targets travellers

THE Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has opened a clinic in Manchester to treat tourists and business travellers.

It is operated by the school’s commercial arm, Well Travelled, which already has two clinics. More are planned over the next two years.

The clinic will provide private pre-travel information as well as vaccinations and malaria services. Its business service will seek to ensure health and safety guidelines are met when employees are sent overseas.

Managing director Philippa Tubb said: “We already have two companies in Manchester that use our services in Liverpool and so it made sense to roll-out our services into Manchester city centre.”

Well Travelled clinics work with a range of industry sectors, from engineering and petro-chemicals to IT and health. It said around 1,800 people return to the UK with malaria every year, and there are 10 to 15 preventable deaths a year in the UK as a result of malaria.

Well Travelled, which will have four staff Manchester, reinvests its profits into research and development at LSTM.