is medicine an option? already at uni

Extremely long story short, I was really interested in medicine all throughout sixth form, unfortunately chose some wrong a-levels. In year 12, I got extremely ill, and had to take a lot of time off, then Covid hit, by the end of the year I’d missed about 7 months of schooling, so I took the opportunity to restart year 12 with new subjects (bio, chem, maths). I spent a year volunteering in my local hospital, and when it came to year 13 (or year 14) I applied for Medicine, and got 3 offers, woo.

Unfortunately didn’t end up meeting them. There were circumstances around this throughout my final year, ongoing health issues, financial trouble, family death, so I’m not beating myself up too much about it. I think if I was to go to medicine straight after it would’ve been bad for me anyway.

So I jumped onto another course, have just completed my first year, and hated it. I’ve arranged a transfer to first year of another course in September, but I’m struggling to get excited. I do think I still want to do medicine, but routes to that right now are difficult.

I could not go back to uni, resit (ABC a-levels) and reapply and maybeeee get an offer, but that’s not a fantastic situation. I can’t imagine how unis would look on 4 years of a-levels and 1 year of a uni course, I’d also have to get on with the ucat like, soon. But also I’ve already got a housing contract with my friends who I really do love. I put some ads out for my room just in case but have had no interest, so as it stands I’d be paying 7k for that room regardless, which I’m less than keen on.

Or I could do 3 years of this new course (biology), which I do think I can maintain interest in. And re-assess my intentions for GEM at a later date.

I’m just wary of starting a whole new course. I’m in the sweet spot where I can still get funding for a whole degree. But staying at home would be far from easy. I’d have to pay rent to my parents, as well as my uni house, deal with my parents immense disappointment, work, and resit my a-levels just to maybe get an offer.

Just looking for any general advice

Having achieved ABC at first sit for A levels considerably limits where you can apply to, essentially being (I think)
Bristol needed 2900+ UCAT this year

Exeter - need A*A*A* predicted, even if not achieved

Sheffield 
- needed 2800+ UCAT this year
Southampton
Kings - want A*AA, score GCSEs, need a high UCAT and say they do not favour resit applicants (though plenty get in)
Edge Hill
Newcastle - want an A* in any resat subject and a 2800+ UCAT

So what did you get in UCAT last time and could you get A*s in resits? If you scored 3000+ and believe you can get A*A*A in A levels, then you have 4 realistic options, if not, you may well need to look at GEM.
I would not be starting a course I did not want to do again, and may look a bit more carefully at what you can study that might lead to a career you can be happy in, given GEM is so competitive. Maybe take a gap year, get a job and live in your uni house (though as a non-student, the house is not entitled to Council Tax exemption) and work for a gap year whilst you get your head round things.

I believe both QMUL and SGUL would potentially accept as well, unless something’s changed in the past year. That would be assuming the biology degree were completed (at at least a 2:1 in theory, but for QMUL at least, realistically a 1st).