Help! Am I good to go?

Grades are fine but you should probably want more medical-based work experience, IMO. Especially like the care home work, as it is long term.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I need a bit more medical stuff but it's quite hard to get long term medical experience where I live as most of the hospitals/GPs have stopped giving out placements due to lack of funding or something! But I'm sure I can get at least a week or two somewhere! Thanks!

UUUMMM yes this is fabulous! And it doesn't matter if you're work experience is in a medicine based environment or not. I've been to 8 open days and they all say IT'S NOT WHAT YOU DO, IT'S WHAT YOU LEARN
so learn learn lear, how have you developed? what skills have you developed? how are you communicating? you can write an amaaazing personal statement with that

Saying "it's not what you do, it's what you learn" can be applied to almost all subjects except medicine. When applying to study medicine, relevant work experience is as vital as qualifications themselves.

(To OP: you're looking very good, but yeah, relevant work experience will be necessary)

It's really not. Well, in the UK anyway, i have talked to admission people from probably around 14 unis for medicine and they say it's obviously good to have relevant work experience but having ANY work experience where you have to communicate or where you show perseverance, motivation, commitment (that was a big one for Leicester) and aslong as you can write about what you've learn and how you'd be able to apply what you've learnt to a medical environment, you'll be fine

My friend last year had NO work experience apart from working at McDonalds and he got 2 offers because he could relate what he learn ( communcation, organisation, responsibility, professionalism blah blah) to a medical environment

so yea

Depends where you're looking to apply, I suppose. All my friends applying for medicine are applying to top end unis and have been told by numerous places that work experience in the medical field is vital. Considering that OPs GCSE grades (when achieved) are very good, I imagine that OP will be considering the top 20 or so UK universities - which will want relevant work experience.

UUUMMM yes this is fabulous! And it doesn't matter if you're work experience is in a medicine based environment or not. I've been to 8 open days and they all say IT'S NOT WHAT YOU DO, IT'S WHAT YOU LEARN
so learn learn lear, how have you developed? what skills have you developed? how are you communicating? you can write an amaaazing personal statement with that

Your local hospital might take you as a volunteer if they won't take you for specific work experience. I just made cups of tea, cleaned and tidied and did patient satisfaction surveys. I say "just", it was invaluable work experience. I had open access all over the hospital and plenty of time to sit and chat to patients about their experiences. You are also a little invisible on the wards, so you really get a feel for how the team works (or doesn't work), the pressures and realities. Anything is work experience if you spin it right and reflect correctly on it. I recommend starting a notebook to jot down brief notes on what you did, a gut feeling and go back a week later to add another thought once you've had time to process it.
For example: In the care home you may be tidying up and you see a patient wailing in what you perceive to be pain. No one is paying any attention to her and you feel horrified. A week later, you realize the patient does this frequently, it's not pain, the patient is oblivious that they are doing it and everyone is really busy caring for other people because the home is tightly staffed. You make a note to research dementia and write three bullet points on how it affects patients and their families.
This way it'll be much easier when you come to do personal statement writing and interview prep.

Saying "it's not what you do, it's what you learn" can be applied to almost all subjects except medicine. When applying to study medicine, relevant work experience is as vital as qualifications themselves.

(To OP: you're looking very good, but yeah, relevant work experience will be necessary)

Depends where you're looking to apply, I suppose. All my friends applying for medicine are applying to top end unis and have been told by numerous places that work experience in the medical field is vital. Considering that OPs GCSE grades (when achieved) are very good, I imagine that OP will be considering the top 20 or so UK universities - which will want relevant work experience.

Just for reference, the unis i talked to were UCL (2nd), Glasgow (6th), newcastle (9th), leeds (11th), warwick (12th), sheffield (13th) , imperial, kings AND oxford who all agreed that having medical work experience is extremely useful - it is NOT vital. they really emphasised that, they said they understand not everyone can get work experience in a hospital or GPs, and they said they most valued long term commitments rather than an afternoon or 2 following someone