Any need to take a medical report?

littleragdoll

Hi there,
My hubby has been called up to attend a medical assessment soon and I was wondering if it would be worth him asking his doctor for a medical report to take along with him to help his cause. We have both worked full time for over 40 years but my health went about 4 years ago and a year later hubby had to give up work after a heart attack and then more health complications so he's receiving IS.
Did taking a doctor's report help anyone else?

rogerblack

littleragdoll wrote: »

Hi there,
My hubby has been called up to attend a medical assessment soon and I was wondering if it would be worth him asking his doctor for a medical report to take along with him to help his cause. We have both worked full time for over 40 years but my health went about 4 years ago and a year later hubby had to give up work after a heart attack and then more health complications so he's receiving IS.
Did taking a doctor's report help anyone else?

Assuming this is for ESA.
http://www.disabilityalliance.org/f31.htm This outlines what ESA is granted for.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/m-06-11.pdf - this contains the details of each descriptor.

You fundamentally need to work out what areas you are possibly going to score points in - what your disease is matters little - unless everyone with that disease has a given disability.

A doctors report can help, if it directly addresses the individual descriptors.

Think hard about each.
Do not simply avoid questions because they are not 'the main problem'.
Consider if a rational person, that followed you around for a couple of weeks, observing your every move could make an argument that you meet each descriptor.
If they could, then you need to gather as much evidence about those as possible, and then submit it.

This varies of course.
Some disabilities are 'easier' than others.
For example, if he can't get out of one chair into another, nearby without the help of another person, and there is a good medical reason for this, then this is easy to prove.
If however he has fits and blacks out every 5 days, but hasn't been to see the doctor about it, this would be much harder.