Need to appeal a decision following ATOS assessment

MUMZ2BEE

Saetana wrote: »

Sounds like you need a new GP, ours is fantastic and not at all happy that they are taking the word of a nurse over someone who has been our GP for 10 years and knows exactly how many tests and procedures my husband has been sent for over the last few years and what the results are.

As someone joked, it seems if you are breathing then you are fit for work, unfortunately its not completely a joke. Glad you have someone to go with you, its even more useful that its not a family member as a professional will be taken more seriously if you do end up having to appeal.

Good luck and I hope it all goes well for you, it does for some people.

Will let you know how it goes!!

sleepless_saver

Saetana wrote: »

I hate to break it to you but the CAB don't do medical reports. I have no idea what you are talking about or who the hell "Mr Linden" is.

The poster was responding to a post which has since been removed as it broke forum rules.

Saetana

sleepless_saver wrote: »

The poster was responding to a post which has since been removed as it broke forum rules.

Thanks, I didn't think it made much sense but it appeared to be a dig at someone and, in the absence of any other posts, I thought it was a response to one of mine

hello11

hi saetana,

i read your posts i hope you have sorted out your appeal and will get the esa,let us know of the outcome,good luck!

hello11

hi rogerblack,
it says in tameside.gov.uk
"No-one is exempt from the medical assessment for ESA. All claimants have to undergo at least one element of it. But there are a few circumstances where a person can be treated as having limited capability for work. They are where the person is :

• terminally ill
• receiving chemotherapy (unless it is via oral medication)
• under notice as a carrier of, or had contact with, an infectious disease"
• etc...
• i was wondering does the infectious disease include the likes of hiv/hepatitis?

nannytone_2

i wouldnt think that it would include HIV or hepatitis.

they arent infectious in the same way that meningitis or measles is.

there are obly very specific ways to catch them

princessdon

People at work have HIV and Hep C = they manage to work just fine (at the moment) and are very difficult to transfer to workers - I'd expect it to be diseases that can be tranferred more easily without swapping bodily fluids.

rogerblack

hello11 wrote: »

hi rogerblack,
it says in tameside.gov.uk
"No-one is exempt from the medical assessment for ESA. All claimants have to undergo at least one element of it. But there are a few circumstances where a person can be treated as having limited capability for work. They are where the person is :

• terminally ill
• receiving chemotherapy (unless it is via oral medication)
• under notice as a carrier of, or had contact with, an infectious disease"
• etc...
• i was wondering does the infectious disease include the likes of hiv/hepatitis?

No. It's a very limited list - it's basically things that are very easily spread, and extremely serious, so that you'd be a danger to others when working, and no simple precautions can keep them safe.