Help with advice for Tribunal next week!!!

oldsporty

I will do, the person taking me is stuck up North and isn't going to attempt to get to me until the weather is good, not just passable so think if they don't cancel I may well have to!! At least it will give me the time to sort out something from the GP!!

oldsporty

Thought I would let everyone know my Tribunal was cancelled yesterday due to the bad weather. They were very nice about the whole process and I will have another date sent to me. In a way it is better for me as I will now be able to get more evidence from my GP. Thanks for all the replies!

Jock221

The DWP may not be under any obligation to request medical records but they always do it can be used to support or back up their decisions that's why it is important to see your GP regularly to keep records on your condition if you don't see your GP for months on end they will use this against you. Their role is primarily to get you off benefit that's what their aims and objectives are and they are Government employees who seem to go through some transformation process from human to special powers agents with x ray eyes and become masters of assumptions.

dmg24

kurgon wrote: »

As a nurse who provides reports for tribunals I can tell you that you are wrong. Also the DWP ALWAYS gets reports from a medical person, either GP or consultant invloved in care. They may also choose to access this information from a CPN or specialist nurse.

No, they do not. You only have to read the threads on here to confirm that!

hobbledehoy.

oldsporty wrote: »

Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping warm and as well as can be! I need some advice about my Tribunal next Wednesday 22nd/2010. I had asked my GP if he would give me a letter to send in before my Tribunal and he said he would but as of yesterday they hadn't received anything so I rang this morning and was told he hadn't done it, sorry, and he is now away until the New Year!! What do I do??? Ask for a postponement or go without anymore evidence then what they already have and just explain things and let them see me as I am?? What does everyone think!!

Hello,
Can i ask what benefit you are asking the Tribunal to consider?

I see that there is a lot of good advice here on your situation, but I somehow feel that just approaching your GP, may not be the final solution.

What sort of evidence will you be asking your GP to supply? Evidence of your illness and medication?

From what I have read on this subject, should you not be looking for evidence to counter the DWP evidence. ie what you can't do, how the disability affects you in your life, what you can do, what are the difficulties that you come up against.

This in my mind has nothing to do with just what is wrong with you and how it is treated which is what the GP is concerned with.

Secondly, somebody that has a diagnosed illness and takes the medication prescribed, may not see their GP for months on end. There is nothing more that the GP could do unless something changes dramatically with your health.
You take your pills & potions and just get on with living your life the best way that you can.

It worries me that to get these types of evidence, you are going to have been knocking on your GP's door regularly explaining your every twinge and bit of pain. Not many long term properly diagnosed patients actually do this. They may see the GP twice a year for check ups and that is it.

cit_k

dmg24 wrote: »

No, they do not. You only have to read the threads on here to confirm that!

Stats show that for incapacity benefit in one year they (atos, who handles medical services for the dwp) only contacted a patients clinician (gp etc) in only 13 percent of cases.