PIP assessment health professional

My husband has his face to face next week (whole process has been really quick). Despite whole range of medical evidence, they appear to have gone straight to the F2F without looking at it in detail. I gave tried to find out the profession of the assessor (I know her some). The websites provided by ATOS are no use as you would really need to know what actual profession the assessor is qualified in to search for registration etc. Can anyone advise? My husband has high level spinal injury and other complex needs.

Thanks Gordon, on both counts. I struggle to understand how evidence from highly qualified professionals with decades of experience can be ignored when the "assessment" is only a short period with someone who has no understanding of my husband's needs. I am going to have all of the evidence we submitted with us. I will also printout some information on my husband's injury for them too. He is nearly 68 and has so many issues....

As an employee of a charity I regularly go to assessments with our members at a particular medical centre, they have all been very fair assessors apart from one and I had this one twice in 3 days. It was clear this assessor knew nothing about M.E.or Fibromyalgia and both members scored 0 points. If I was to get the same assessor again is it possible to say that I would prefer someone else to undertake the assessment? An added problem is that this person is the 'supervisor' of all the other assessors

Hi Lynn

I agree about how can a nurse etc have as good as an understanding as a consultant but I know that the assessors are looking at how an individual is affected by their condition. Even if we have the same medical condition we are all affected uniquely.

One of the statements on the claim form say that they would not find printouts of information about conditions helpful, to make the most of the assessment may I suggest that if you haven't already done so, write a statement based on your experience covering your husband's difficulties with each of the activities, this will prove useful to the assessor and will have to be forwarded to the DWP as evidence.

After the assessment wait a week, then call the DWP office that is dealing with the claim and ask them for a copy of the assessor's report which they will post to you, the assessor has to enter exactly what they were such as nurse etc on the report. If the decision by the DWP is not what you hoped for and you find that the assessor has made some poor judgements in the advice they gave, you could use their less than adequate training and experience against them.