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In my case it was generated by the GP.

Adding to update for future searchers! In terms of getting the vaccines for the visa process - I was able to get all five of my missing vaccines on the day, no problem (COVID, flu, tetanus, hep b and MMR) but my appt did take a while as a result. For MMR they offered a blood test, but since I’d caught mumps AFTER my first MMR, it felt safer to just double vax. We skipped varicella as I’ve had it, but again they offered a blood test if I didn’t know. If I’d been pregnant, planning to get pregnant, breastfeeding or prone to DVT this wouldn’t have been possible, so worth calling ahead for a chat. Cost £240 and I now have all vaccine paperwork. in terms of my missing medical records, this is a bigger palaver. If you face similar, ask your GP practice as early as possible if they have reported your records missing to PCSE and if not to do so immediately. The PCSE will then attempt to find your records and reconstruct them if they’re completely gone. PCSE had some strong words about my GP’s conduct, this is absolutely not normal and they def shouldn’t be like *shrug* it’s fine! like my GP was.

I do. I'm going to go ahead and guess my mum forgot to take it to appointments - it's empty except for the name of my health visitor (not helpful three decades on) and some head measurements (unsettling). Mad how much of a nightmare that's turning into all this time later. The reason they have everything else, I suspect, is because most of my health history was in the ten years of medical records they had for me, luckily I've been broadly healthy. I do remember thinking a few years ago that it was strange that I had to remind my GP I couldn't take a certain class of medication, but I just assumed he wasn't paying attention, didn't occur to me he might be missing records.

I have. My GP told me to ask Medi2Data; Medi2Data have ignored my emails so far and their phone line is closed for training. It's so infuriating. At this point I have four working days between tomorrow and my medvisa appt, and am missing loads of vaccine detail despite applying for my full medical records six weeks ago (when it became apparent that NHS App etc had nothing but my Covid records). I'd guess that someone, probably my GP back in my hometown, messed something up quite badly (lost some records, didn't digitise something they ought to, etc). I'm going to keep asking questions of GP and Medi2Data until the clock runs out, but for my sanity I've made peace with the strong possibility I'm going to have to cough up for unnecessary vaccines.

I have this. It shows past medical issues but not vaccinations (possibly COVID, nothing else). I’m waiting on a tonsillectomy (lol) and have a letter from my ENT surgeon about that as well. It’s literally just vaccination records missing.

Unfortunately the titres are in most cases significantly more expensive than the vaccinations. I can't work out why this is, but it is. I've emailed the medical record company to ask where the other 23 years of my medical records are, and failing that, I'll just have to pay for whatever jabs they say. It is so, so frustrating but I can't see another way around it - GP appointments are six weeks ahead, medvisa appt is in a week... I've got no other ideas!

Ah, thanks, that's good to know. My GP is working six weeks out for appts and I'm two weeks from med visa appointment, so I think I might need to abandon hope of GP assisting me here and just stump up for whatever jabs become necessarily. But it's reassuring to know it's not unusual to need multiple jabs and it won't slow things!

Yeah, I've consulted the list and know I don't need (for example) the meningitis, rota and pneumo jabs because of my age. That still leaves me with TDAP/P, hepatitis, MMR, varicella (not given in the UK routinely so I was expecting to need to get this one) etc. It's just a lot to do in one day and I'm fretting that it'll slow my application.

Hey everyone, I'm midway through the application for an IR1 and at the stage of attending my visa medical and document review (in two weeks) followed by my interviews (two further weeks). I'm having a lot of trouble obtaining my vaccine records (except COVID, which I have x 3). The majority of my required vaccines were administered in the early 90s and while I was there, I was under 2 and have no recollection, let alone records. My parents don't recall being given physical records and if they were, they don't have them (we even checked my red book - nada!). None of the NHS apps (either official NHS apps or Patient Access) have records for my vaccinations except COVID, even the more recent ones done in the 00s. On the advice of my GP surgery, I filed a Subject Access Request for my full medical records and last night (after the full 28 days) they gave me up to 2015. This doesn't cover the relevant period. I don't now have time to file another Subject Access Request before my Medical appt and I have a strong suspicion that even if I did, the NHS does not have my handwritten vaccination records from 1993. I know I can get the jabs there, but I'm going to need so many simultaneously (an entire childhood's worth, basically the full list required by the US) that I'm concerned they won't be able to complete them all in one appointment and it will set my other appointments at Nine Elms back. Has anyone else faced similar? Any suggestions on where else I can try to find my medical records? My other potential plan is to find a travel clinic that can start doing them ASAP and take those records to my Visa Medical, rather than risking doing them all on the day. (In case anyone asks, yes, I'm extremely confident that I was definitely actually vaccinated! My mum works in healthcare so she's very pro vaccinations. I just can't prove it based on available records.)