I am currently in the K3 process and it has not yet been approved. But, being rather organised, I decided to go about getting things I knew I could before hand. One of which is my medical record. Here's where the fun begins...

I booked an appointment at my local doctors surgery to have a tetanus injection because I wasn't sure of the last time I had had one (and couldn't remember having one in at least the last 10 years). It turned out that my last tetanus jab was given in 2001 at a local emergency room, due to cutting my leg on glass (can't figure out how that one slipped my mind). The Surgery have a record of the jab but no brand etc and, as the nurse who saw me at my appointment didn't administer a new vaccine (she wouldn't as it was within 10 years of the last one), she said she couldn't sign to say I was up-to-date with my Tetanus vaccinations. Even though it is clearly on my medical record that I did, indeed, have one 6 years ago. She did say that I could contact the local child health clinic to obtain my school and pre-school record of jabs.

So today I phoned the Child Health Clinic and asked about obtaining a record of the jabs I'd had at school/pre-school... they have no record of my having the rubella injection in middle school (or of me even having attended a middle school) and no record of my having the BCG (I think this is not even necessary for the visa) in my secodary school.

So, all-in-all, I have failed in both attempts to get ANYTHING that can prove I have had the required injections.... Anyone know what I could try next? I'm not looking forward to the fees associated with having them done during the medical Especially as I have already had all of them.

Talk to another nurse with higher I.Q. or to the doctor regarding your 2001 tetanus jab. If they can not administer new tetanus because you are covered until 2011 they could and should sign to say you are up-to-date with your Tetanus vaccinations

Hi there,

I wasn't able to get hold of my vaccination records for rubella, and as the injection is now combined in one in the MMR vaccine, I couldn't just get a single jab, but I went to my own doctor and got the MMR vaccine and got the nurse to print out the record there and then and took that along to my medical, it was fine, and at no extra cost from having it done NHS before hand.


Hope that all makes some kind of sense.

Sarah

That's what I was going to say - why not have them all redone? My fiance had both the tetnus shot and MMR for no charge at his GP. They wrote out his record on the spot, which he then took to the visa medical.

Thanks for the responses I will try the doctors surgery again to see if I can get a more helpful person. I still don't understand why they wouldn't re-do the tetanus, as when you get cut within the 10 years they sometimes like to give you a new one anyway. I'll also try to get the MMR done alongside that too. I'm just not holding my breath after the annoyance of the last appointment.

The problem is, in the doctors surgery I attend, it's always the nurses that give injections so I don't have much (if any) chance of actually seeing a doctor for it.

It doesn't matter. My fiance's jabs were done by a nurse - she's the same person who wrote up the vaccination information, which was on their NHS form.

I had all my vaccines done by the nurse in the UK -MMR T/D and hep b (I'm a teacher). I just asked the nurse if they could type up the vaccines given on headed paper and get the doctor to sign it which she did. I don't think it cost much if anything.



Shona

I'm confused as to what I've had jabbed into me when I was younger too, but they can tell you what you've been jabbed with if you do a Blood Test and have them look for it.

An Australian on here (Hampster) posted a list of what the Panel doctors are looking for, but I dont have the weblink on me (stupid printouts x.X), so you could look for his posts. It was posted April 26th, 2007, and the list was from a receptionist of a South Australian Medical doc.

At least for Australia, we're to have the following vaccinations: Mumps, Measles, Rubella, Polio, Tetanus and Diptheria Toxoids, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Influenza type B, Hepatitis B, Varicella (chicken pox) and Pneumococcal.

If you haven't had it, they'll give it to you (probably not for free mind you), and if you HAVE had it, you've got the paperwork to show the Panel Doctor.

Also, make sure you have the TB shot. Thats the one they ask you to return in a few days. You may be able to get a Chest X-ray done beforehand too.