Medical Booked in Oxford

Getting Your Medicals Done.......

Thursday 15th June 2006

Today was the day we had to get our medicals done and we chose from the list of panel doctors on the immigration site and we decided to go for Oxford and The Manor Hospital which is part of the Nuffield Hospital Group, We were introduced to Dr Armstrong who came over very well with the initial telephone interview we had and felt very confident with our appointment. Was even given the 4 digit under ground car park number free of charge which was a big help with all the added stress of trying to park at Hospital's, so can only say this is a big bonus for starters as we had to travel from Lincoln which was in itself a 3 hour drive.Most panel doctors we called could not give us an appointment until mid July so taking into account the time it takes for results for your bloods and xray's a 3 hour journey to Oxford would be worth it in the long run, by my reckoning we have saved around three to four weeks alone in waiting time for appointments. Our journey down to Oxford was pretty stress free until we got to the dreaded M1 near Leicester where we came upon road works at Junction 21a which put at least a half hour on our journey time already, we had an 11:00am appointment and it was about to get worse, when we got to The Manor Hospital in Oxford within time for our appointment but to fail at the last hurdle we had forgot our passports for the xray's. We then had to go through this whole process once more the following day to get our Xray's completed, one of the stipulations of the Xray Dept was they would not verify our Xray's without attaching our photographs onto the application and checking against the passports, one costly mistake which we never want to repeat I'm afraid.........But apart from that we can recommend The Manor Hospital for panel doctors, very smart hospital as part of the Nuffield Trust of Hospitals and very prompt and on time appointments, the kids were kept entertained with toys and we were kept happy with tea and coffee and newspapers to keep us amused with very little delay to our appointments. So now all we need is to crack on with our ITA application and a trip down to London to see the consulate with our paperwork.