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James4078

Joined: 04 May 2007, 21:51
Posts: 9
Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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I have just been told that it's going to cost £90 for my GP to fill in this form! £90! Has anyone else had to pay this much?

Also they said they could do it for £30 if the Practice Nurse did it but I had to have something in writing from Camp America to say that they could do this. Does anyone know anything about this?

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23 May 2007, 18:33
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Victoria5666

Joined: 13 Mar 2007, 18:09
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Location: hanging out in the veggie patch
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Mine was £50 but its a uni health centre and when i asked why they chaged so much they said its cos they get asked to fill in so many. I looked on the price list and a medical form was £30 but as soon as it had camp america written on it then it went up to £50. not fair :'(

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23 May 2007, 20:17
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Janette0578

Joined: 17 Apr 2007, 10:35
Posts: 10
Location: Thornton Cleveleys near Blackpool
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well when i took mine to the doctors for them to fill it in, they only charged me £10 and they did it that day for me aswell.
23 May 2007, 20:20
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Benjamin2300

Joined: 25 Mar 2007, 15:13
Posts: 51
Location: Hull
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it really annoys me they think they can rip off students because they know they can! GPs get paid more than enough to nothing anyway!
23 May 2007, 20:31
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Victoria5666

Joined: 13 Mar 2007, 18:09
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My Dr at home would have done it for £20 but the hassle of re-registering at home just to do it and then re-registering at uni after the summer, it just wasn't worth it all. SO my mum went halves on it with me. They're evil. The uni Dr's said they'd recently updated their prices to keep up with the Dr's near by. I get my prescriptions free cos i'm a poor student! And then they think i can easily afford £50 for a tick box form i could quite easily do myself. Grrrr!!

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Carmen1926

Joined: 11 Apr 2007, 18:44
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I got my medical form for 0 pounds. I didn't have to pay something for it.
23 May 2007, 20:54
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Rebecca3541

Joined: 21 Apr 2007, 17:45
Posts: 122
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
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I must be one lucky Banned Word then...
It didn't cost me a single euro! I just made an appointment with my doctor's office to fill out the form (I actually had to help her with some of the english terms, good thing I'm a pre-med then :lol:) and sat there while she filled it out and walked away again!
23 May 2007, 20:55
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Adam9626

Joined: 16 Mar 2007, 17:39
Posts: 509
Location: warrington, cheshire
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didnt cost me anything either, waited 3 weeks for it tho. Picked it up from docs and just walked out with it, so not sure if i had to pay or not lol

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24 May 2007, 06:28
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Sarah1861

Joined: 24 Apr 2007, 16:29
Posts: 32
Location: Sussex
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mine's £17, £90 is ridiculous! Maybe they think you want to have a medical rather than them just filling out a medical form - could be the reason why the price is so high?
24 May 2007, 10:24
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Rebecca3541

Joined: 21 Apr 2007, 17:45
Posts: 122
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Hmm. Could be..
Though medicals are often covered by your health insurance.

I had a potential problem at the whole practice of filling out a medical form: it isn't allowed in the Netherlands! Dutch GPs are bound by their ethics code and rules against the vouching for somebody's health. There can always be something there you haven't diagnosed yet, so it's not ethical to even fill out a form like we had to.
I knew that, going into the doc's office, and told her as much, but also told her that it was for an american program. Then she smiled, and told me they make exceptions for foreign countries... Boy, was I glad! Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to send the nice people at CA medical their form :lol:


24 May 2007, 12:08
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Hannah5987

Joined: 16 May 2007, 14:49
Posts: 12
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i managed to get it free too.....just went to see dr, and he filled it in for me brill! 90 squids is a bit much!!!

Han x
24 May 2007, 23:05
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Jo6826

Joined: 24 May 2007, 01:03
Posts: 55
Location: London/Loughborough (uni)
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i paid £37 for mine, you just dont realise how much the process costs ive already spent more than im gonna earn!
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25 May 2007, 06:55
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Robert8402

Joined: 12 May 2007, 12:05
Posts: 3
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You shouldnt have to pay anything for you medical form. Its just a standard health check and they fill in an additional form. Thats what you pay national insurance for!!
25 May 2007, 12:03
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Jennifer0717

Joined: 11 May 2007, 08:18
Posts: 38
Location: Aberystwyth, Wales (Not Scotland!!!)
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Mine cost £10, for the form and a letter about a medical condition as well. My tip is not to tell them its for Camp America until you get in there and to TAKE PHOTOCOPIES once it is filled in!

I phoned up the other day as I needed to get another form filled in as my camp won't accept the Camp America one and as soon as I mentioned Camp America they said £25. Fortunately I came to a deal with them as it was basically the same info again so I just dropped it in with the photocopies I had taken of the other form and they signed it for me, I just had to go in and see a nurse to get my blood pressure read for the sheet.

If I hadn't have had the photocopies I would have had to pay again and also see a doctor again, which wasn't possible as they are booked up until after I leave anyway!

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25 May 2007, 12:20
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Lisa2664

Joined: 18 Mar 2007, 11:24
Posts: 50
Location: North Wales
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Oh my goodness, I cant believe that some of you have had to pay as much as £90 for your medical form to be filled in, that's absoulutely ridiculous. My doctor did mine for free, took it in on a Monday and got it back the following thursdayx

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25 May 2007, 21:34
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