Who's going where?

[Louise McFadden]

Just wondering who's heading for what unis next year, studying what etc. etc?

I'm really nervous about leaving 6th year and everyone I know and starting at the beginning all over again, like first year kindov, but I think it should be fun.

Am seriously looking forward to student life!!! :lol :lol :lol

[Adam Gilmour]

Well I'm definately heading for Glasgow in October. Hopefully see some of you guys there!!!:D :D :D

[MartinC]

l don't really know where l'm off to yet. l have unconditionals 4 Aberdeen and Dundee - haven't heard from glasgow or edinburgh yet

[ehart]

i'm going to Glasgow!!:D

i haven't had my hep b test but i start my vaccinations next week

LUV

EMMAXX

[Bobbin]

I'm going to Aberdeen. Can't wait to leave home!!! I've just got the last Hep B jag to go I know it was a teeny bit presumptious of me starting the course in August but what the heck!

xX

[Adam]

dunno. just cant decide between glasgow and edinburgh. both have adv and dis. not aberdeen or dundee cos ive withdrawn from them.

adam

[Damien]

Hey Bobbin!

That's great that your coming up to Aberdeen.

Would you believe that there is a great student place called "The Bobbin" right next to halls! It's really cheap, especially if you have a yellow card for it - doubles for £2.20.

Anyway, got to go.

I'll be sticking up some FAQs with answers at some point, hopefully this week, and they will hopefully help any of you that hasn't decided yet where to go.

Damien :evil

[Louise McFadden]

I'm going to Glasgow too but I've not started my hepatitis vaccination yet, my first is next week - :eek: !!

Has anyone going to Glasgow returned their health questionnaire yet?


xxx

[Bobbin]

That is very cool, but it might be a bit sad if I was to make it my regular haunt!! People would begin to talk. I'm really looking forward to Aberdeen.
xX

[relliott]

Health questionaire?
I know some folks who still haven't handed there's in!

and don't worry about the hep B, you have until 2nd year to get it all done

[lindsmcvicar]

Yeah, I went to my GP and she said the uni should help me get that sorted and wouldn't do it!

[relliott]

thought I better warn all the Glasgow peeps - make sure you start your HepB soon, coz the health service will jump up and down on you just to make sure you have it completed by 2nd year. I think they hold back your exam results if you haven't finished the immunisation, so I'd get it done quickly if I were you, especially if like me you have a bad response and need to get a booster, adding another month or so onto the whole thing. I was worried I wasn't going to get to see my results along with everyone else!

[Devlinator]

im having my first one next week, and i have to pay for it, how rubbish is that!!

[nicolacurrie]

y do u have 2 pay for it? is it cos ur 18? If o, i'm gettin mine done b4 i am 18!!

Nic xx

[ehart]

i've got my secong hep B tomorrow and i don't have to pay.

i thought you got all that sort of thing free as long as you were in still fulltime education at 18.

[relliott]

you have to pay coz it's a prescription

and no, being in full time education doesn't get you free prescriptions which sucks bigtime if you're unwell for a long time!! Although, get a hold of a HC1 form and you may be eligible for free stuff due to low income

[Adam]

i never filled out any forms, i dont fink my family qualify 4 low income, and i go mine free!

adam (confuzzled)

[phlangepal]

good thing about living away from home. they look at your income and not your parents and so hey presto freebies all round!!!!

[relliott]

it's not family low income, it's your own personal income, which being a student, will be negative in most cases!!!

[Devlinator]

My gp surgery charge for it cos its not a standard vaccination, but im not paying for the script.

And they are refusing to give me the hep b surface antigen testing, even tho i have shown them the letters from both aberdeen and edinburgh stipulating that it is necesary!

[DScollon]

Maybe you should point out to them how pointless it is to give you a vaccination which only works on so many people without bothering to check whether you have cover after it. You can't assume you are covered until you have your antibody titres checked.

[elliottsimpson]

Having been through the era when hepatitis had no letters after its name, this horrible killer was called "serum hepatitis" and was found to be associated with what was called the "Australia antigen". In 1969 a renal dialysis patient in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Unit developed hepatitis. By the following year, several other patients and members of the hospital staff had become infected. There were four deaths among the hospital staff (two doctors, a laboratory technician and a laboratory clerk/receptionist).

We learned to be scrupulous with our hygeine habits- well, maybe - allegedly, a former colleague visited the labs in Edinburgh, shortly after that event, and found that butter was still being kept in a fridge which contained specimens.

There was no vaccination available and we accepted this as a risk which we had to minimise. One of the staff at the virus lab at Ruchhill Hospital found that the incidence of hepatitis among lab staff was less than in the poipulation at large and he put this down to the attention we paid to personal hygeine.

Certainly, if you are a carrier of the virus, patients need to be protected against you and you may not be allowed to perform exposure prone procedures. But our staff are allowed to sign a waiver declining vaccination or expressing their willingness to continue to work with specimens even though they have not shown a high antibody response to vaccination, so it surprises me to hear talk of people being banned from medicine for not having and responding to vaccination.

[relliott]

if your GP won't do it I would assume that the university's own health service will be more obliging. I know for certain glasgow Uni Health Service will do your titre check for you

and as I said before, mine was under the required level first time around, so I needed a booster

and one person in my year failed to get any kind of response

[andrewbaillie]

So whats the policy on that then, if you dont get an adequate response to the vaccination I mean?
Are you not allowed to proceed?

[Devlinator]

i am having it sorted as we speak, but i cant believe my surgery!

[susanj]

Hi. I know this thread has been quiet for a while, but I thought you might to know the official line from Glasgow on Hep B:

New students don't have to do anything before they start 1st year. They get a blood test at the health screening in Sept and this is checked to make sure they are not a Hep B carrier before they matriculate. Then they have until the end of 1st year to get immunised, which takes 9 months (3 injections needed). Some students
have started the course when they arrive, which is OK, but it's equally OK if they have not. If the health service have not got a record that a particular student has completed the course by the beginning of 2nd year, they (the health service) tell the 2nd year Secretary, who holds back the student's matric form.

The official reason for the Hep B vaccines is to stop infection being passed on to patients. But the Uni has a general responsibility for student/worker safety and I think this is another important reason for you to undergo the Hep B vaccinations.

Susan J.

[VikMcG]

Hi
For those who are starting - you get free prescriptions if you are in full time education up to the age of 19. So if you are nearly 19 get it done soon. Also some surgeries charge to do the hep B ( mines in st andrews charged £90).
Vicki

[marie]

i just went to the nurse to get mine. there were no prescriptions, quesions or charges. she just did it. nice n simple if a little sore!

[Devlinator]

i had to reschedule my second one a few times, cos i had various illnesses and things, so it is now 5 months since my first one, so im just going to wait till i go to glasgow.

[Adam Gilmour]

Im gonna go get my last one on Monday. Finally I won't have to look at the little vail staring at me from the bottom of the fridge for the past 6 months!

[ehart]

i had my last vaccination last week and thankfully my nurse kept mine.

i'm a little worried about needing boosters as my dad needs to get his boosted (he's a care leader at RSNH)

does anyone know if anyone wanting the flu vaccination and is under 65 are having to pay for it as i usually get mine done cause of my asthma?

[Devlinator]

I dont think the nhs offers it if you are not in a high risk group ie. asthmatic, over 65, cant remember the other ones.

[ehart]

yeah, i know but i work in a gp's surgery and some of the receptionists were talking about it and were saying that ONLY those over 65 were getting it free, so i'm not sure if i'll have to pay for mine or not this year

[Devlinator]

i dont thonk so, my aunty gets it every year, and she doesnt have to pay cos she is asthmatic.