Medical Requirements

The following is a list of immediate barriers to entry into the ULOTC:
Loss of limbs
Loss of sight in either eye
Severe diminished mental capacity
Severe emotional instability
Discharging ears/deafness

You may be disqualified from joining the ULOTC if you are suffering or have ever suffered from the following conditions:
Red/green colour blind
Heart Disease/Rheumatic Fever
Asthma or Wheezing
Hay fever or allergies (dependent on severity)
Bronchitis, pleurisy or pneumonia
Haemoptysis
Tuberculosis
Digestive, bowel or abdominal disorders
Jaundice
Kidney, bladder or genital (including venereal) diseases
Haemorrhoids
Epilepsy, fits, faints or blackouts
Migraine or severe headache
Head injury or concussion
Backache, pain in the knee or other joints
Any severe sprain or fracture
Malaria or other tropical diseases
Nervous breakdown or mental illness
Bedwetting since age 10
Any episode of self-injury or poisoning
Any skin disease
Any severe reactions to drugs or injections

Any enquiries relating to medical requirements should be directed to medicals@ulotc.co.uk.

If you are over 25, you may want to consider looking at other branches of the Territorial Army due to our age limit. However, you are welcome to discuss this with the Recruiting Department on 0207 414 3898 or recruiters@ulotc.co.uk.

MENINGOCOCCAL GROUP C CONJUGATE VACCINATIONS AND MEASLES,
MUMPS AND RUBELLA VACCINATIONS FOR TA ENTRANTS

In line with the British National Formulary (BNF) recommendation that all University attendees are immunised, it is advised that all TA entrants are immunised against meningococcus serogroup C at least 10 days prior to attending initial training . If this is conducted, the preferred vaccination is to be the Meningococcus serogroup C conjugate vaccination. This is regardless of age. You should check you are immunised before joining.

Some Cadets will have received a Meningococcal vaccination previously that may provide protection. The current immunisation status of each individual is to be checked and recorded. The following may have been received:

1. Meningococcus serogroup C conjugate vaccination. This is a one-off vaccination and does not require a booster. If this has been given, an entrant will not require further vaccination and is clear to attend training without further delay.
2. Meningococcal A+C polysaccharide vaccine. This requires to have been administered within 3 years from the start of training.
3. Meningococcal quadrivalent ACW135Y vaccine (more commonly administered as a travel vaccination). This requires to have been administered within 3 years from the start of training.

Cadets are to be encouraged to attend Phase 1 training with up to date immunisation and to remain current throughout their training. The results are to be recorded on a Cadet's F Med 4.

It is recommended that all attendees are vaccinated against meningitis and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) . This is because the risk of contracting meningitis is higher when living and working in close quarters with larger numbers of people than is the case in everyday life. It is not possible to say exactly what the level of risk is. It is thought to be low but it should be born in mind that should you develop these diseases they can be life threatening.

Not being immunised also means that there is a greater chance of the disease spreading to others - so you are potentially harming your colleagues and family.

Any individual who chooses to attend training having not been vaccinated does so at their own risk.

Additional information should be sought from the Training Major, and thereafter from
SO3 DGAT, HQ ARTD – 94344 8275 (01980 618275).

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