If you are unable to have a specific vaccine for medical reasons, you may require an exemption certificate as evidence.
Our doctors can provide you with a same-day medical certificate that will confirm which vaccine you are advised against being given, due to associated health risks. No appointment is needed – simply apply online.
What will I receive?
You will receive a verifiable digital PDF letter signed by a medical professional and sent directly to your mobile, containing the following details:
- Your name and date of birth.
- Name of the specific vaccine with medical confirmation you should avoid it.
- Signature and authorisation by one of our GMC-registered UK doctors.
- Contact details of ZoomDoc Health with a QR code enabling a verification check.
Important – clinical indications for exemption certificate
Specific clinical indications for which our doctors can provide this certificate include:
- Allergic reaction to other vaccines
- History of anaphylaxis to a vaccine
- Known allergy to vaccine components
- Egg allergy
- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome
- Current moderate or severe illness
- Severe reaction to a previous yellow fever vaccine
- Myocarditis or pericarditis after a previous vaccine
- Older than 60 years of age
- Babies under 6 months old
- People with a weakened immune system, such as those with leukaemia or lymphoma.
- People whose immune system is weakened by treatment, such as steroids and chemotherapy
- A thymus gland disorder or who’ve had their thymus gland removed
- Close relative who has had a severe reaction to this vaccine causing damage to the brain or other organs
Please note: Without verifiable proof of a clinical indication for exemption, our doctors will be unable to provide this certificate.Our vaccine medical exemption certificate expires 12 months after issue.
Yellow fever exemption certificate or proof of vaccination required if travelling to an area endemic with yellow fever:
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda
