UK Shortlisters - Paperwork

[IngBWoodAl]

Just got a call from a nurse at the Uni health centre. Turns out my medical file is just an empty envelope

[Jak90]

Just got a call from a nurse at the Uni health centre. Turns out my medical file is just an empty envelope

Perhaps you've been too healthy at university...?

[SakuraHoshi]

If not an X ray, what kind of TB test is everyone getting? Because if the BCG vaccine can cause a positive result in the Mantoux text, is it ok to send it off like that as long as the GP has signed it off as being ok?

Also on that NHS link from the JET email, there are 2 types of TB, and the only way for checking for the TB that is inside the lungs is the X ray. So how can any of the other tests prove our lungs are healthy if they don't check for that kind of TB??!!

[aayl1]

It's not okay to send your results off if it comes back with a false positive. Because it doesn't say "false positive" it says "positive". If it said "false positive" then you'd know it was a false positive, and it wouldn't be a false positive. comprendez?

If it comes back as "positive" as far as I'm aware the NHS will consider you as having TB and will probably give you a free chest Xray, which will then show you don't have it.

[IngBWoodAl]

Perhaps you've been too healthy at university...?

Ha I should have added that it wasn't empty circa last week. My history of inoculations pertaining to TB etc were all supposed to be in there. Curses.

[Steff]

Hey. Congrats, shortlist / alt guys.

I did my Subject Access Request with my local police station by requesting for 'PNC' information on the form. I didn't include my email address though - only my phone number. It's a little irritating, as I would've included it if I'd known that I would receive updates on my SAR's status (not just for if something goes wrong). The £10 hasn't left my account yet, but I don't have any reason to believe that there's a problem.

I've got my doctor's appointment tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to organise a TB test / X-ray without much hassle.

[suica]

Just realised that I wrote my DOB as xx/xx/xx on the reply form when it says to write it "exactly as it appears on your passport", which would be xx NOV /NOV xx. That can't possibly be a problem, surely. The name and that is exact, I'm clearly just over-thinking it. Sending tomorrow.

[Laurel]

Are they making everyone have an x-ray this year?
I remember when I filled mine out last year it said that you did not need an x-ray / TB test if you have had the TB jab, or if the doctor thinks you are healthy.
I was very lucky that my doctor at the time just said to me " You normally pay for this kinda paper, but let's be honest I haven't done much. It's free, happy birthday"
Hope it doesn't cost you guys to much! Congratulations on the shortlist too!

[Jenita]

Bit of not-entirely-JET-related paperwork for everyone to consider -

I was just pottering around Student Finance's website trying to work out how much I owe (I'm a masochist, apparently), and I found this form:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg ... 078083.pdf

It's for people leaving the country for over three months. Apparently we have to let them know so they can take repayments from us. Only thing I'm not sure about it whether we fill it out now or wait until we're in the country.


Also turns out you can only apply for an IDP three months before your departure. I want to get things sorted now!

[rebeljonny]

I have decided that private health clinics and the NHS are staging a countrywide protest against all JET participants. Nobody will give me a straight answer, or anything close to useful information, regarding this bloody TB test! It's a joke! Getting pretty peeved about being constantly passed around between different private health advisory services that all seem about as competent at providing me with a piece of private health advice as my dog is at composing the next piece of groundbreaking science concerning string theory. AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE A DOG.

Patience. Gone.

[kob]

Agreed!

I went to see a doctor on monday and she shooed me out of her office and told me to leave the forms at reception. Reception told me to call the next afternoon, which I did, and they told me it hadn't been touched, but they'd call me by the end of the day (to tell me what I don't even know). Did they? Nope. Then I called yesterday morning, I was told I'd be called before midday, and so I called after 12 as they hadn't bothered, they answer machine informed me that they'd closed for training all afternoon

So today is round four DING DING DING.

I swear it's a conspiracy

[rebeljonny]

I cannot ring another travel clinic about TB testing. Literally NOWHERE does it. Just going to bite the bullet and go for an X-ray. £110 isn't cheap but equally isn't half as bad as the £200 somebody mentioned earlier in this thread. This whole process has been an absolute nightmare

[ljoekelsoey4]

Just realised that I wrote my DOB as xx/xx/xx on the reply form when it says to write it "exactly as it appears on your passport", which would be xx NOV /NOV xx. That can't possibly be a problem, surely. The name and that is exact, I'm clearly just over-thinking it. Sending tomorrow.

... dayum :/

they couldnt possibly be THAT pedantic could they????

[ljoekelsoey4]

did previous batches of JET applicants have to navigate through all this s***e as welll??? its becoming farcical

[rebeljonny]

Just realised that I wrote my DOB as xx/xx/xx on the reply form when it says to write it "exactly as it appears on your passport", which would be xx NOV /NOV xx. That can't possibly be a problem, surely. The name and that is exact, I'm clearly just over-thinking it. Sending tomorrow.

... dayum :/

they couldnt possibly be THAT pedantic could they????

I'm almost certain I did the same and I haven't had a phone call to suggest there has been a problem!