Planning for your trip checklist

For all travellers

• Have you spoken to your doctor or specialist nurse?
• Are you fit to travel safely?
• Will you need a travel companion or helper to go with you?
• Will you need any special equipment?
• Have you let the travel company and your accommodation know about any particular needs?
• Do you need any particular vaccinations for your destination?
• Have you got enough medicines or medical supplies for the whole time you will be away? Remember to take extra supplies, in case your return is delayed.
• Do you have your passport and another form of proof that you are a UK resident, such as a driver’s licence?
• Do you have your travel insurance policy and certificate?
• Have you packed all your medical supplies or equipment in your hand luggage, so you can have easy access to them?

If you are travelling to a European Economic Area country or to Switzerland

• Do you have your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)?

If you are travelling with medicines for more than 3 months

• Do you need or have a personal medicines licence?

If you have severe mobility problems

• Do you have your Blue Badge, if you think you will need it?

If you have a stoma

• Does your accommodation have a private bathroom, including facilities to dispose of appliances, if you think you will need this?

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