Lord Trefgarne – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Trefgarne on 2014-06-04.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average time taken by general practitioners to complete the medical forms required by candidates for the Territorial Army and Army Reserve; and what is the number presently outstanding.

Lord Astor of Hever

The average time taken by General Practitioners to complete medical forms for Army Reserve applicants is 29 days. This includes the time taken by the candidate to provide the documents to their General Practitioner as well as the time taken by General Practitioners to process the forms. This has reduced from 37 days which was the average prior to the implementation of the improved medical process for recruits in February 2014.

As at 6 June 2014, 1,315 sets of Army Reserve medical declaration documents were outstanding.