How do I get medical evidence for esa

nannytone_2

its like another world!

regarding the charging for DLA reports .....

in a skewed way, my consultant thought he was helping!
he said ...... visual impairment isnt taken as a serious disability and the system 'doesnt appreciate how difficult life is for those with sight loss.

they mess you around, so i mess them around by charging!

he doesnt seem to accept that a decsion based on such scant imformation as 'deterioration' is the same as a decision made with no imformation at all

princessdon

Nope they copy last hearing test and current hearing test.

The difference between the 2 is documented, they then comment on how this difference affects my daily life. As I said - it means I now have to adjust hearing aid ONLY if using that ear (other is fine) and by what frequency.

All changes, what it means for my day to day living, how I can deal with it are documented.

It's opened my eyes as I thought all HA did the same.

For example when I applied for AA for my GM all I did was provide 12 mos worth of reports. She had no medical, they never contacted her GP etc.

But all evidence was there, clear and in patient CC's to the GP.

I honestly thought it was the same for all.

nannytone_2

its incredibly frustrating.

with DLA mobility for the visually impaired, there is a criteria to meet.
sight of no more than 6/60... which i have
total loss of visual field ... which i have
central vision of no more than 10 degrees ... which i have
( perhaps i should say havent lol!)

but because the consultant refuses to actually write this down on paper, i cant access my entitlement.

i get low rate mobility and low rate care.

with the consultants report i would definately get high mobility and possibly middle rate care.
this would give me additional income of £85 a week, even considering that i would have to pay £25 a week towards my direct payments.

life is hard enoug when you have a severe impairment, but when those that are supposed to help and support you, seem to be going out of their way to make life more difficult.... its just unecessarily stressful.

the extra money wont make me see.... but it would reduce the stress and enable me to live a fuller life.

btw .... stress has been highlighted as a factor in the deterioration of my particular condition

princessdon

nannytone wrote: »

its incredibly frustrating.

with DLA mobility for the visually impaired, there is a criteria to meet.
sight of no more than 6/60... which i have
total loss of visual field ... which i have
central vision of no more than 10 degrees ... which i have
( perhaps i should say havent lol!)

but because the consultant refuses to actually write this down on paper, i cant access my entitlement.

i get low rate mobility and low rate care.

with the consultants report i would definately get high mobility and possibly middle rate care.
this would give me additional income of £85 a week, even considering that i would have to pay £25 a week towards my direct payments.

life is hard enoug when you have a severe impairment, but when those that are supposed to help and support you, seem to be going out of their way to make life more difficult.... its just unecessarily stressful.

the extra money wont make me see.... but it would reduce the stress and enable me to live a fuller life.

btw .... stress has been highlighted as a factor in the deterioration of my particular condition

Genuine question but why don't they document?

If every frequency lowering for a hearing test is documented, why don't they do it?

Surely that is just basic sharing of medical info (with or without benefits). X had the following at last test and now has X has current.

It's surely basic information about them as a person that they have a right to have notified?

nannytone_2

you'd think so wouldnt you?

the consultant was very much a 'pat you on the knee, and tell you not to worry about it' type
he was always quite suprised, and possibly even threatened, but the fact that i knew as least as much about my condition as he did ... if not more.

when i lived in london, i was under the care of Moorfields, in a clinic that dealt solely with conditions that affected the retina.
now im seen at the local hospital, in a general eye clinic.

its almost the same as seeing your GP, then wondering why he cant remove your appendix for you.

he delights in telling me that symptoms i have, arent 'part of the condition'

but i pointed out that it is an umbrella title, that covers many similiarly acting conditions .... and that i have had gebetic testing which proved that i have none of the know conditions that behave in the way mine does,
so as i have 'no known condition' he cant presume to tell me that my symptoms dont exist!

i think possibly that didnt incline him towards helping me.
but i cant stand to be patronised by someone who clearly knows less about whats going on with my sight( or lack of it) than i do myself!

satarical

Bootsalebargains wrote: »

My husband has been on incapacity for nearly 10 years and received a letter this morning to go for a medical this Friday and to bring any medical reports with us but I don't know how we get medical reports. His neuropathy was diagnosed 10 years ago but they said theres nothing they can give him and it would just get worse so we don't actually see anyone about this. He went for a xray or something similar in january 2012 which showed he has damaged the main nerves in both hands and as this meant he couldn't push his manual wheelchair he was referred to have an electric wheelchair. I have ask at the hospital for a copy of this but they say they can't give it to us and we have to ask our gp for a copy but the gp says it hasn't been sent to him and we need to ask the hospital, we're just going round in circles. How does anyone get hold of medical evidence.

Just a point, there is no legal requirement for you to take any evidence. 9 times out of 10 they won't bother reading it!

iluvmarmite

nannytone wrote: »

its like another world!

regarding the charging for DLA reports .....

in a skewed way, my consultant thought he was helping!
he said ...... visual impairment isnt taken as a serious disability and the system 'doesnt appreciate how difficult life is for those with sight loss.

they mess you around, so i mess them around by charging!

he doesnt seem to accept that a decsion based on such scant imformation as 'deterioration' is the same as a decision made with no imformation at all

He's not messing them around though by charging, he's messing you around by not giving the information they require to help your case.

£500 is a ridiculous amount to charge for something that can be printed off in seconds by his secretary and shoved in a pre paid envelope, I can't see how he can justify that amount of money.

nannytone_2

i was staggered myself when he came out with the £500 figure, and initially, i layghed because i thought he was joking.
thats when he said how poorly the visually impaired were treated, and that was his way of punishing them in our behalf!

he never seems to write any notes, so i suspect that my file doesnt contain any specifics either

mazza111

Nannytone, is there any way that you could ask to see someone else at the hospital to get this sorted, it's terrible you're having to go through this

satarical

princessdon wrote: »

It should be automatic - I get cc'd in every letter sent to my GP following every appt. even the "thank you for referring this lady to us, she is on waiting list and will be issued an appt in due course".

I've never received any copies either. What I have to do is regularly ask the various hospitals (3) and the GP for copies of my wife's and my files at £50 a time for each one!

If I then want a medical report for the DWP as was the case for the last DLA review (Nov 2011) otherwise they were going to throw out the claim, It cost me another £125!!