Staying safe and healthy abroad
For UK citizens about to travel or live abroad, we have practical tips on staying safe, secure and healthy, and avoiding problem situations.
Sometimes, it’s to do with commonsense precautions – like arranging the right vaccinations and travel insurance. Sometimes, we have more specialist advice – like how to keep yourself informed about the risks of terrorism in the country you’re going to.
The essential travel checklist
Make sure you read our travel checklist before you go away - it's got everything you need to know for staying safe and healthy abroad!
Take our number with you!
Find out why it's a good idea to always make a note of the nearest embassies phone number when you're abroad.
Staying safe and healthy abroad
- Terrorism abroad
- Travel checklist
- Eat and drink safely
- Driving abroad
- Travel money
- Tropical cyclones
- River and sea safety including piracy
- Travel Health
- Travel insurance
Recent news and events
Travel advice to Georgia changed
10/08/2008
We have changed our travel advice to Georgia. We now advise that if you have no urgent need to stay in Georgia, you should leave as soon as possible.
LOCATE: new service to help find citizens in an emergency
16/05/2008
The FCO today launches a new service called LOCATE which will help it to track down Britons in the event of a crisis abroad.
Comoros Travel Advice Update
08/05/2008
The Foreign Office has changed its travel advice for Comoros
See Also
FCO in action: Supporting British nationals
Useful Links
Identity and Passport Service - for information on applying for passports in the UK
