Edinburgh Visitors and Tourists Health Centre

A historic monument with columns and a decorative top, overlooking a cityscape with landmarks including Edinburgh Castle, and Calton hill in the background, taken during sunset.

The Edinburgh Visitor & Tourist Health Centre provides accessible private healthcare services for tourists, international visitors and short-term residents, including consultations, prescriptions, vaccinations and travel-related medical support.

Only a 10-minute walk from Princes Street, and situated on the Abbeyhill bus stops, we are an accessible, city-centre clinic, offering same-day private medical care for tourists in Edinburgh, without the hassle of GP waiting times.

✓ GPhC Registered

✓ Prescribing Clinicians

✓ Same-Day Access

✓ Central Edinburgh and Online

✓ Weekend availability

✓ Emergency prescriptions

✓ GPhC Registered ✓ Prescribing Clinicians ✓ Same-Day Access ✓ Central Edinburgh and Online ✓ Weekend availability ✓ Emergency prescriptions

Services We Offer

Edinburgh Fringe & International Festival

During August we operate extended opening hours to help performers, artists, tourists and visitors to the city.

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Lost or Forgotten Prescription Medicine

Lost or forgotten you prescription medicine? Don’t worry - you’re not the first! We may be able to help you, even if your original prescription is from outside the UK.

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Online Consultations

Can’t get to the clinic? We offer online consultations for people located anywhere in the UK and commonly help with lost/forgotten medicines, infections, and sudden illness (e.g. shingles, UTIs, skin infections)

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Walk-In Consultations

Need urgent help and don’t have time to book? Visit us during opening hours and we’ll make space to see you same-day: no appointment necessary.
We commonly help with lost/forgotten medicines, infections, and sudden illness (e.g. chest infections, shingles, UTIs, skin infections)

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Dispensing Services

Have a private prescription? Find out whether we can dispense it (and if not, how we can still help)

Dispensing Private Prescriptions
Minor Ailments Consultation

Have a minor issue you just want advice for? Or perhaps you just need to see someone before deciding which service to book. Minor ailments consultations are designed for exactly that.

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Who Will See Me?

If you book a clinical service with us, you’ll see one of our clinical team members:

Staff

Vicky Kelidou

Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacist Superintendent, Independent Prescriber

GPhC 2209041

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have a digital prescription, most pharmacies will not dispense it if it does not originate from the UK. This is because they cannot verify the prescription is legitimate and it being dispensed may not be tracked.
In the case that you can’t get your digital prescription filled, and the medicine on it is Prescription Only in the UK, you will need a UK-based prescription in order to obtain it. (This is where we can help!)
In the UK, there are laws which dictate what requirements a prescription must meet, in order to be considered a legal document, and thus dispensed.
This includes that the physical (hand-signed) prescription must originate from within the EU or EEA and it should meet the prescription standards of a UK prescription.
This means if you have, for example, a Brazilian or American prescription, it cannot be filled here.
We are still able to help you with your prescription: you would need a UK-based prescription, and we have a prescribing pharmacist who may be able to assist you. Pop in to see us, or book an online consultation!
We are a fully private healthcare provider, and we don’t work with any insurance companies. This means when you pay for your services you pay out of pocket.
We are absolutely happy to provide your receipt and additional paperwork for an additional cost, which you can use to try to claim money back from your insurance if you’d like to.
You can reach us by phone during opening hours or by email outside of opening hours.
For a consultation and prescription service, whether online or in-person, you’ll pay a standard fee.
If you choose to receive medicines dispensed from us, or additional supporting paperwork, there are additional variable charges.
Before we answer this, it’s important that you know in a medical life-threatening emergency, you should call 999 and ask for an ambulance.
If you have an urgent issue which is serious but not life threatening, we can usually help. If you need to be seen right away, just give us a call and we’ll squeeze you in!
If we’re currently closed, visit our consultation and prescription page and select the first available appointment.
If we’re closed during the day, it’s usually because it’s outside our normal opening hours.
Our second clinic, Arcadia, is open online seven days a week. So, if we’re not open, we always suggest to try Arcadia.