Hi everyone, I work as a homeopath in england (not been qualified for very long) and am looking for a part time job while I build my practice.

One of the jobs I've applied for is a technician at a hospital and I have an interview for it in a couple of weeks. I am concerned that I might be required to have a Hepatitis B vaccine in order to take the job (nothing has been mentioned though on the job description forms but the post is "subject to a suitable medical clearance").

Anyway, I do not want to have any vaccines, but I have been searching for specific side effects from the Hep B vaccine on the web without much luck - all I can seem to get off the web is pro-vaccine sites or sites with info on general vaccine side effects. The information I have in texts at home gives side effects on childhood ones such as MMR and DPT but not on Hep B.

I've heard of some of the side effects of the Hep B vacc such as neurological probs (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis but I was wondering what other side effects there are and if there are any web links to sites containing the info.

I'd just like some more info on it for my own learning and development, and also if I get the job, I'd like to know that I was confident in my decision to decline a vaccine. i.e. I had made an informed decision!

Thanks, Kara