Medical Question

[Yvie_and_Brett 0]

Okay, medical forms time.

The first yes/no question asks whether or not I've ever been hospitalised. In 1996/97 I was taken by ambulance to A&E after a car accident, but I was out in a few hours once my broken arm had been plastered. I was taken (again by ambulance) in 2001 following an armed robbery when they thought I may have been suffering from shock, but I left without treatment after a few hours of being ignored in the waiting room. Finally, last year I had an elective procedure which involved being checked into hospital from 9am-3pm.

I've never been sent because of a disease and I've never stayed overnight, so do I put yes or no?

I was thinking about leaving it blank and explaining on the day, but now my nerves are getting the better of me and I'm not sure what to do.

Any thoughts?

[aidy 0]

Okay, medical forms time.

The first yes/no question asks whether or not I've ever been hospitalised. In 1996/97 I was taken by ambulance to A&E after a car accident, but I was out in a few hours once my broken arm had been plastered. I was taken (again by ambulance) in 2001 following an armed robbery when they thought I may have been suffering from shock, but I left without treatment after a few hours of being ignored in the waiting room. Finally, last year I had an elective procedure which involved being checked into hospital from 9am-3pm.

I've never been sent because of a disease and I've never stayed overnight, so do I put yes or no?

I was thinking about leaving it blank and explaining on the day, but now my nerves are getting the better of me and I'm not sure what to do.

Any thoughts?

i wondered the same thing as i spent a few hrs in the hospital last year after a car crash, luckily my wife works in a hospital and she told me it only counts as being hospitalised if you have been admited to a ward and stay over night, A&E doesn't count so i ticked the NO box.!

hope this helps to relieve some of your nerves, i have my medical on the 7th of July and even tho i know it will be fine im nervous as hell..lol

good look with yours, i'm sure everything will be fine and we are both worring about nothing

[Yvie_and_Brett 0]

i wondered the same thing as i spent a few hrs in the hospital last year after a car crash, luckily my wife works in a hospital and she told me it only counts as being hospitalised if you have been admited to a ward and stay over night, A&E doesn't count so i ticked the NO box.!

hope this helps to relieve some of your nerves, i have my medical on the 7th of July and even tho i know it will be fine im nervous as hell..lol

good look with yours, i'm sure everything will be fine and we are both worring about nothing

That's incredibly helpful, actually. It's nice to know that there's a definition to "hospitalised" and that it doesn't just mean any old random visit to A&E, lol.

The only thing I have to worry about now is my replacement passport not arriving in time. It's a week late

[morretti 0]

i wondered the same thing as i spent a few hrs in the hospital last year after a car crash, luckily my wife works in a hospital and she told me it only counts as being hospitalised if you have been admited to a ward and stay over night, A&E doesn't count so i ticked the NO box.!

hope this helps to relieve some of your nerves, i have my medical on the 7th of July and even tho i know it will be fine im nervous as hell..lol

good look with yours, i'm sure everything will be fine and we are both worring about nothing

That's incredibly helpful, actually. It's nice to know that there's a definition to "hospitalised" and that it doesn't just mean any old random visit to A&E, lol.

The only thing I have to worry about now is my replacement passport not arriving in time. It's a week late

My passport is overdue too. There's an email (passport tracker) page you can send them on the gov web site, I'll try and post it but not sure it'll link properly, I'm not very good at link posting! lol https://passports.ips.gov.uk/forms/applicat...acker-form.aspx There's also this number for them: 24-hour Passport Adviceline: 0300 222 0000 (see terms and conditions) Calls made to 0300 numbers from landlines and mobile phones are charged to customers at their network provider's national rate. Live operators are available to assist with your enquiry 24 hours a day. Good luck.

As for the original question, I wondered the same. When I had my children I spent a few days in hospital, there were no complications so it sounds over-dramatic to class it as being hospitalized. I just planned to write childbirth and dates on a separate piece of paper and leave the box blank and ask advice at the medical, that way it'll just be a case of ticking the box.

[Yvie_and_Brett 0]

My passport is overdue too. There's an email (passport tracker) page you can send them on the gov web site, I'll try and post it but not sure it'll link properly, I'm not very good at link posting! lol https://passports.ips.gov.uk/forms/applicat...acker-form.aspx There's also this number for them: 24-hour Passport Adviceline: 0300 222 0000 (see terms and conditions) Calls made to 0300 numbers from landlines and mobile phones are charged to customers at their network provider's national rate. Live operators are available to assist with your enquiry 24 hours a day. Good luck.

Thanks for that - as luck would have it, it was waiting on my doormat when I got home this afternoon. Phew! That's a weight off my mind!

As for the form, I think I'm going to leave it blank and explain on the day

[Yvie_and_Brett 0]

I left the "hospitalised?" question empty and spoke with them at the medical - as stated earlier, only referrals and overnight stays are classed as having been hospitalised, so unless you stayed overnight on a ward, your answer is "no"

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

At last, a definitive answer! Thanks for that, Yvie.