Does anybody know who long the referral time is?

[kags1694]

I failed my medical back in Aug 08 because of my BMI. After loosing weight, I sent in my new medical this week, and my CO has sent the results to the MA for his approval.

Does anybody know what the turn around is now?

Thanks

[BkyMonster]

Seems to be a couple weeks at most.
I don't know for sure, but I seem to be hearing back from the MA via my CO pretty quickly after sending stuff in.

Good luck

[LisaandPaul]

As as matter of interest we have yet to have our medicals! But can you fail on just high BMI? and everything else be ok! I am under but waist is on the line! my wife is just over 36.5 bmi and waist over. Would this be considered a fail?

[tea drinker]

Fingers crossed for you Kags

[BkyMonster]

As as matter of interest we have yet to have our medicals! But can you fail on just high BMI? and everything else be ok! I am under but waist is on the line! my wife is just over 36.5 bmi and waist over. Would this be considered a fail?

If everything else is fine they may give you a pass at that level. They may also defer you for 3 months in order to lose the weight.
I'd recommend having the medical whenever you need to, and losing the weight before a CO contacts you about it.

If your BMI is very high and everything else is ok they can deny you, yes.

[Helsandfamily]

We were referred to the medical officer because of an existing condition. It took about a month. It was a lot longer than we were expecting, It could be taking even longer at the moment because of the xmas period.

Good luck Kags.

[StuAndRen]

I failed my medical back in Aug 08 because of my BMI. After loosing weight, I sent in my new medical this week, and my CO has sent the results to the MA for his approval.

Does anybody know what the turn around is now?

Thanks

We were *very* lucky. My wife's medical had to be referred a few weeks before Christmas, and our CO said there was a backlog and it would take 3 to 5 weeks...

...it came back in 6 days! (London office).

(The MA asked for a letter from a specialist physician, so we submitted that yesterday, and our CO reckons the current turn around time is about 2 weeks.)

[kags1694]

We were *very* lucky. My wife's medical had to be referred a few weeks before Christmas, and our CO said there was a backlog and it would take 3 to 5 weeks...

...it came back in 6 days! (London office).

(The MA asked for a letter from a specialist physician, so we submitted that yesterday, and our CO reckons the current turn around time is about 2 weeks.)

Thanks for info.

Good luck with your application

[kags1694]

received the following email from CO today:

medical has been returned to me and the Medical Assessor has requested further information before they can make their decision on her standard of health. Specifically, they have said:

"Well done re: weight. Still has abnormal LFTs [liver function tests] therefore [to see] specialist for review [and report on] - diagnosis, treatment, prognosis"
I just feel that each time we get over a barrier, another is there to upset the journey.

Quick question: When I had my medical should the doctor at the centre informed me that there where problems with my liver.

Karen

[BkyMonster]

Our doctor didn't mention anything with my OH's liver test. I gather that abnormal liver results are pretty easy to get as the test is very sensitive and a lot of doctors don't think much of it unless something is very strange.
In his case he repeated the test and everything was fine.
Hoping a repeat test will clear things up for you!