Occupational Health assessment on return to work

wizzards

Undervalued wrote: »

It is perfectly reasonable for them to want access to your medical records to compile an OH report. In fact it could be argued they were being negligent if they did it without!

You don't have a right to stop a report being sent once you have agreed to having one produced.

You do have a right to ask for changes and if you are unable to agree have a statement of your views added to the report.

Occupational Health aren't qualified to comment on Pituitary Adenoma. Experts are they in what ?? Occ Health only and GP practice. This is kind of out of the realms of type of things the GP is qualified to make detailed comments on hence thats why all my treatment or advice is given by the clinic and my GP doesn't do anything but provide repeat prescriptions when instructed by the consultant. When I asked the Occ Health Woman what are the common types of Pituitary Adenoma she got very evasive and rather flustered. She seemed to know just about where the Pituitary Gland was just about but thats about it.

Occ Health can only really take the report from the consultant. I have done them a favour by bringing that with me to the review. But of course if they get it themselves they can charge lots of money to my employer. Really they should just write a report and say xxxx consultant says yyy and attached is a copy.

wizzards

Undervalued wrote: »

I would also resist the temptation to be overly pedantic about the finer points of the GDPR and doctor's names missing from forms.

Well they didn't give me all of the form explaining my rights i.e Page 2 and refused to give me a copy and snatched it away, My relative that was with me witnessed the incident. Also the request to sign the form was post assessment ?? I remember learning on the desk at the reception trying to fill it out. They certainly didn't explain anything about what it was for. In hindsight I should have refused to sign anything but the doctor was pressuring me to do it as he had another appointment. I have complained to my employer. Its not just the doctors names its the address of my firm. The name of the person at the firm. The name of my doctor. The name of the practice is there but I didn't at that time have a named GP. My address and the GP practice address is there. Any named person or phone number or any more details are blank.
The options about if I would see a copy of the report before my employer have been altered in a different pen. Mistakenly I ticked all 3 options. I must have been pretty ill as I spelt the name of my firm wrong as well.

Undervalued

wizzards wrote: »

What I am looking for is how to get an apology for the way I have been treated by my employer and the health company from them and the their faulty reports about me to be deleted and them to let me get back to normal life. And also how to deal with going through the ordeal of yet another OH review. if you'd suffered a seizure you'd not want to spend time with some GP going over all the history again.

From the internet I was hoping I would get some sensible advice given I've tried the union. I don't want to sue anyone.

As to my boss he didn't tell anyone I was ill. Not even the departmental secretary knew. I think he thought thats another one I got rid of...

With respect you have been given some very sensible advice but you really don't seem to be taking it on board.

You still seem to be focusing of what are, at best, fine procedural points and ignoring the bigger picture.

You have been off sick a long while and it is perfectly reasonable for the employer to want occupational health reports etc before allowing you to return. Assuming you are "disabled" (for employment law purposes) they also need to assess what reasonable adjustments are required.

Within reason you need to comply with these requests. If there is a real material problem with one of these reports that will significantly affect your chances of returning to your job (with reasonable adjustments) then, and only then, do you take issues with it. You will need to back that up with medical evidence that is contrary to what the employer has been told by OH.

If you don't comply or if you are assessed as medically unfit to do your job you will be dismissed on capability grounds and all you will be entitled to is 12 weeks notice plus accrued holiday.

If you get back to work then you may have a chance of getting a redundancy package if the firm are still needing to shed staff.

I wish you well but I'm sorry I am not going to repeat myself further. I'm out!

wizzards

Oh well. I just received the GPDR reply from my employer with all the info they have access to on the web portal of the health provider. It contains 3 letters.
1. The original hospital report and test results from a london NHS hospital including all my blood test results
2. A Private and confidential letter to me from my consultant with detailed medical data.
3. Another private and confidential letter from my consultant with detailed medical data.

Thanks for the advice. I wish you the best of health as well

I am going to comply but I am going as suggested to contact my union

Browntoa

You seemed to have opened a new thread on exactly the same subject ?

k3lvc

Browntoa wrote: »

You seemed to have opened a new thread on exactly the same subject ?

Which gives an indication to me of how difficult the employer might be finding this to manage