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LSTM Annual
Report 2014/15

Well Travelled Clinics

Well Travelled Clinics improvement in turnover

continued again this year with income up by over

3.2% on the previous year across our two branches.

This increase in income was due to the dramatic Dr Philippa Tubb -
WTC Managing Director
rise in occupational health related work over the

course of the year.

Well Travelled Clinic played a signi cant role in the preparation
of healthcare workers being deployed to the Ebola Crisis in
Sierra Leone and coordinated the pre and post deployment

health screening of 236 NHS volunteers who were deployed
via UKMED, the humanitarian organisation working on behalf

of DFID, to deploy British aid workers recruited from the NHS to
international humanitarian emergencies.

As part of this process, a large number of these volunteers
were seen through our main clinic in Liverpool, but we also

had to run some o -site clinics in order to ensure the rapid
deployment of these NHS teams, straight from their pre-

deployment training programmes.

We have also established a number of new occupational

health services this year and are now carrying out Maritime
and Coastguard Agency (MCA) medicals for seafarers and also

Oil and Gas medicals for o -shore industries. During the year
ahead we hope to further develop occupational health services

for the shipping and o shore sectors through our links with the
Mersey Maritime Group.

WTC Chester is a part-time branch, operating for three days per
week. During 2015, we opened the branch for an additional

day per week for six months of the year during our peak times.
This proved successful and we are going to repeat this again in

2015/16, with a view to opening up permanently for four days
per week from summer 2016.

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