Overseas Travel

The DOH provides essential information on planning for a healthy trip, avoiding health risks when overseas, obtaining emergency medical treatment abroad, and on form E111 which will give you free or reduced cost emergency medical treatment in most European countries

Foreign & Commonwealth Office website with lots of useful information about travel to all countries - health, threat of terrorism, what to do before you go, which countries to avoid, etc.

FCO site with details about British Embassies, Consulates, High Commissions, etc. around the world.

Useful site with advice on where to stay, eat and what to do in over 170 places around the world.

The Identity and Passport Service is responsible for issuing UK passports and identity cards and for the registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales. It is an executive agency of the Home Office.

The Pet Travel Scheme allows pet animals from certain countries to enter the UK without quarantine, as long as they meet certain conditions. The Scheme also means that people in the UK can, having taken their pets to these countries, bring them back without the need for

Issues UK passports to British Nationals living in the UK. It also issues visas for entry into British dependent territories overseas to foreign nationals and Commonwealth citizens already in the UK.