The criteria for military personnel to be eligible to apply for transfer from their cap badge to the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) includes:

• Medical employment standard: MFD.
• OPG: B minimum.
• Conduct: Exemplary.
• Qualifications:
  • GCSE: Grade A*-C in English, Mathematics, and Science.
  • Alternatives are accepted for GCS English and Maths (L2 qualifications).
  • 120 UCAS tariff points (typically BBB) from maximum of three A/A2 level passes, or equivalent.

Potential candidates can further investigate their eligibility here.

Table 1 highlights the number of applicants who applied for transfer to the QARANC between 2016 and 2017.

Table 1: No. of applicants for transfer to the QARANC
Year	2016	2017
No. of Applicants	20	30
Successful Applicants	10	20

Notes

• Under National Statistics rounding conventions all figures are rounded to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 have been rounded up to the nearest multiple of 10 to avoid systematic bias.
• Figures below 5 are denoted by ¬.
• Zero is denoted by -.
• Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and may not equal the sum of their parts.

Reference

FOI 2017/11769 dated 05 December 2017.