"New entrant to the UK screening for tuberculosis "
According to English government's requirement, we should take the chest X-ray test for tuberculosis. Some people may wonder know why Taiwan should take, however, after I asked the staff, they said, this is according to every year's data instead of website showed. Anyway, this is different from UK customs, if you have taken the test in Taiwan, you should bring your English report to the immigration office so that you don't need to take it here. Otherwise, you should go to the university hospital for free test.
The immigration office will give you a paper that showed the detail of hospital and the date of this test. Because it's far away from where we live, we took the free bus, X12. However, if you live in Josephine Butler or Ustinov, there is no stop for X12 free bus. The nearest station is on the stockton Rd., which is behind the library. When show your student card, driver will print a ticket to you.
After arrive the hospital, you should find the X-ray reception instead of main reception. Then show them your paper that immigration office gave you, they will bring you to the room to change the clothes and take the X-ray.
In addition, the hospital is totally different form Taiwanese, it's only one floor and the environment is more relaxed.Even the reception play the pop music!
今天終於去照了X光檢查了，覺得相當麻煩，但至少在這裡是免費的。網路上有人說台灣是可以不用檢查的，英國簽證的網站也這樣寫，但學校說網站上的是沒有更新到的資料，每年都會有變動，今年新加坡、香港、韓國的學生也是都要照。但如果我們在台灣先照了，也可以帶證明過來給學校，就可以完成NHS的TB test部分，不用再去醫院照一次。
到了醫院以後，要直接找X-ray部門，那邊也有一個櫃台，把學校給我們的檢查單給他看，很快就會幫我們安排了。原本我的單子上是寫三點，但我兩點到他也先幫我安排了。回程再去對面搭車，一樣搭X12免費巴士就可以了，但實際的到站時間可能還是會跟站牌上的時刻表有點出入，我們去程的時候是比較早到，回程是晚到，所以搭車前最好提早去等。
跟學院最靠近的站牌應該是在palatine centre那邊，圖書館後面的那條路，stockton road. 另外一站是在教堂附近，在Hatfield 的postgraduate 宿舍，其實也離main library很近。上車時給他看學生證，他就會給你免費的票。
另外讓人驚訝的一點是，這裡的醫院跟台灣很不一樣，感覺不太像醫院，像療養院，滿寧靜的，燈光也比較明亮，只有一層樓，而且櫃檯還在聽歌，氣氛也比較放鬆，不像台灣的醫院一樣擁。
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