Confused in Northern Ireland

Faith

Answering your question slightly out of order.

You can submit whatever evidence you think helps your claim., although older evidence will tend to carry less weight than newer unless you can show that due to your conditions it is still applicable.

Medical evidence is great but it rarely directly addresses the PIP activities. I would start by speaking to your GP and Consultants to see if they are willing to provide anything in the first place, many doctors are now saying that won't provide any information for a benefit claim, of those left the majority say that they will only respond to a request from the DWP, unfortunately the DWP rarely make such requests.

If they are prepared to help then there is a document in the PIP section called PIP GP Notes, have a look at it and see whether this may help to provide some structure to anything they might produce.

Gordon

Faith wrote: Q5 Managing treatments:

The new rules on 16 March 2017, does this mean that the Complete Emollient Therapy ‘CET’ (one of my conditions), medication intake are excluded with supervision as a health condition????

What is my long list of medication and therapy at home then for????

I think you may now struggle to score more than one point for this activity, all you can do is explain what you do in detail and any assistance that you need with the CET, also how your health would be affected if you were unable to carry out the treatment.

Also, see if you can find anything on the internet to re-inforce the view that this is a treatment rather than the application of a medicine, for example, is the application more than just applying creams to the skin.

Gordon