If you have any prior criminal charges, convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings, you must inform the HYMS Associate Dean for Admissions in writing when you apply. Information about your criminal record will not be available to the assessors who read your UCAS form, nor to your interviewers, and it will not affect how we rank your application.
However, if we want to offer you a place, this offer will require the additional approval of the HYMS Fitness to Practise committee, taking into account the full circumstances that you supply to us. In considering this information, the committee is acting on behalf of both universities and all the NHS Trusts in the HYMS area.
When you register with the University, you will be required to undergo an enhanced criminal records check and be registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority as part of the Vetting and Barring Scheme. If this discloses any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings that you haven't already told us about, you will forfeit your place.
If you incur a new criminal charge, caution, reprimand or final warning between submitting your application and starting your course, you must inform the HYMS Associate Dean for Admissions immediately.
For international students
The above rules about criminal records also apply to international students. Because the UK Criminal Records Bureau cannot access records information from overseas authorities, we ask international students to arrange for the equivalent check from their home country when they register.